A look into Quarkus and Agentic Commerce with Holly Cummins and Michal Maléř (#89)

For this episode of the Foojay Podcast, we invited the author of three recent posts published on Foojay. And he brought a colleague to get even more expert knowledge in this podcast! We talk about Quarkus, how it is "cloud-native", how it compares to other frameworks, the advantages for developers and managers, etc. We also discussed nano businesses and how they can serve as a model for paying creators of digital content, thanks to x402 and ERC-8004.

Michal Maléř

• https://foojay.io/today/author/michal-maler/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/michal-maléř-69344692/
• https://www.mickeymaler.com/

Holly Cummins

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cummins/
• https://hollycummins.com/
• https://noti.st/holly-cummins

Links

• Quarkus: A Runtime and Framework for Cloud-Native Java
• Optimizing Java for the Cloud-Native Era with Quarkus
• Not a Lucid Web3 Dream Anymore: x402, ERC-8004, A2A, and The Next Wave of AI Commerce
• J-Spring 2023: Five Tricks for Java - Holly Cummins: The code we write has a climate impact. But how big is that impact? How do we measure it? How do we reduce it? Is the cloud helping?
• JavaFX In Action #10 with Clément de Tastes about QuarkusFX, combining the strengths of Quarkus and JavaFX
• Comparing a REST H2 Spring versus Quarkus application on Raspberry Pi
• Open Source Collective
• Commonhaus Foundation
• A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools

Content

00:00 Introduction of topic and guests
01:04 Why contribute to Foojay as an author
01:33 What is Quarkus?
02:56 Quarkus compared with other frameworks
05:08 Quarkus a replacement for JVM?
06:40 Build time optimization versus Ahead Of Time (AOT) versus Just In Time (JIT)
12:53 Other important facts about Quarkus
18:13 Impact on Cloud financial and ecological cost
21:31 Vert.x reactive toolkit compared to Virtual Threads
24:14 New features in Quarkus
26:02 Is Quarkus more modern compared to other frameworks?
27:13 What are chain transactions
31:10 How can a (web) author earn from his content?
35:54 How this can impact open-source development
38:34 Will these open standards get adopted?
39:47 How opensource can be funded (Commonhaus)
43:00 How content creators could be funded and publish their content in the future
46:01 MCP as content distribution (with Quarkus)?
46:49 Conclusion