Foojay Podcast #89: Quarkus and Agentic Commerce

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.

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Guests

Michal Maléř

Red Hat Technical Writer | Eclipse Foundation Committer | Sovryn ex-contributor | Hackernoon Blockchain writer

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

Holly Cummins

Senior Principal Software Engineer ⭐ Making Developer Joy Happen

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

Links

• Foojay posts:
  • 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