Kodsnack 701 - The chicken would explode, with Holly Cummins

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