Kodsnack 701 - The chicken would explode, with Holly Cummins

5 de maio de 2026 · 39 min

Notas do episódio

Fredrik chats to Holly Cummins about using Minecraft for observability, other amazing Quarkus tricks, and the value of joy at work.

Recorded during Øredev 2025.

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Links

Holly
Holly's presentation - Five (and a half) things you can do with Quarkus
Quarkus
Graalvm
Picocli
AWT
WASM
Chicory - WASM runtime for the JVM
Microcks - contract testing framework in Java
APICurio
Dev services
SQLite in WASM
Hibernate
Reasteasy
Vert.x - "reactive applications on the JVM"
Holly's Minecraft extension for Quarkus
Support us on Ko-fi!
Langchain4j
Grafana
William Gibson
Backpressure
Simon Wardley and his keynote on mapping
Minecraft demo to explain Kubernetes concepts, by Sebastien Blanc
Holly's talk about developer joy
The fun topic on hollycummins.com

Titles

All in one room
When you say Quarkus
Really amazing throughput
The way that conferences work
Other people have done all the work
It unlocks a whole lot of possibilities
Slightly more tortured
Javascripv via WASM on the JVM
The absence of configuration
Unless you work for a bank
That zero friction
All of that dynamism
The reading of the configuration
Deep introspection of the application
Six demos in 40 minutes
The useful extensions had been written
The chicken would explode
Novel way of understanding the application
Manually implement the backpressure
Zoo of types
The containers were chickens
Joy and productivity
The happy piglets
You are a profitalbe piglet
The mandatory fun officer
I now have the language
On team cloud

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