Who takes care of the people who take care of open source?
For @commonhaus.org's 2nd birthday, I revisited the foundation for @thenewstack.io. [1/3]
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Who takes care of the people who take care of open source?
For @commonhaus.org's 2nd birthday, I revisited the foundation for @thenewstack.io. [1/3]
At 6pm tonight (UK time), I'll be doing lots of silly Quarkus demos at the JChampions conference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdca...
Your last chance toget a free copy of Quarkus In Action
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Mandrel 25, the latest downstream distribution of GraalVM 25, has arrived!
Mandrel 25, the latest downstream distribution of GraalVM 25, has arrived!
This release introduces a host of exciting new features focused on enhanced monitoring, improved developer experience, and expanded platform support.
quarkus.io/blog/mandrel...
Mandrel 25, a downstream distribution of GraalVM 25, is here!
This release brings a lot of great new features around monitoring, DX, and platform support.
Learn more: quarkus.io/blog/mandrel...
Thanks @jbaru.ch for having me live on #VerboseMode at @dev2next.bsky.social yesterday to talk about @quarkus.io and #spring!
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Throughput chart for different Hibernate Validator versions
Hibernate Validator 9.1 == faster validation. Reduced memory allocation and overall increase in throughput. Check the detailed report: in.relation.to/2025/09/29/h... #Hibernate #Java #Validation #Performance
There will be plenty of opportunity to get in depth with Quarkus next week at Devoxx Belgium.
There will be plenty of opportunity to get in depth with Quarkus next week at Devoxx Belgium.
October 6-10 in Antwerp, Belgium
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GraalVM 25 is here, with lots of updates for native compilation, GraalPy, GraalJS, and WebAssembly.
Faster and better than ever!π°π
Download: www.graalvm.org/downloads/
Release notes: www.graalvm.org/release-note...
For my keynote with @sannegrinovero.bsky.social from at www.redhat.com/en/events/de..., I am experimenting with @graalvm.org native image, @kotlinlang.org, and @quarkus.io and it works great! Instant startup, low memory footprint, and high throughput. Check it out here: github.com/thomaswue/na...
@sannegrinovero.bsky.socialβ¬'s career wisdom: make yourself replaceable, interview regularly, and truly listen. These aren't just tech lead tips - they're growth principles. When you enable others to succeed without you, you create space for bigger challenges. techleadjournal.dev/episodes/220/
Nice photo at Devoxx UK :) @kevindubois.com @sannegrinovero.bsky.social Bruno Meseguer Dorota Volavkova Kate Mulder
Fun thing, I didn't send any pictures and they also improved my talk titles and bio π Can't complain, like them better than my draft!
Rare chance to see me in person in Singapore!
March 27 I'll present on an extremely interesting JVM performance topic:
www.meetup.com/singadev/eve...
Also looking forwards to network and discuss anything related to @quarkus.io , @hibernate.org , @commonhaus.org
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I'd not fully trust confirmation from the console output as - depending how you launch it - there could be some additional JVM forked, with consoles nicely redirected.
Is it busy enough doing something? Sorry for asking the dumb question, but that's what I had wrong myself not too long ago π
To that sense, I really do like the Java module system's direction of strict(er) validation of the module definition at compile time. Huge progress compared to OSGi in this sense - a step back in others but I feel like progress is being made. I do wish to improve modularity in Quarkus... π
We (literally you and me when working on Hibernate π€) didn't like OSGi because as library maintainers it was hard for us to get confidence in our osgi manifests, yet there's lots of successful projects still running on OSGi containers. We felt it was inadequate, but for some it was a boon.
I don't agree on the runtime alignment and release coordination needs; sure they impose restrictions but as long as there is no excessive coupling such aspects don't manifest as practical, unsurmountable problems. It's more about getting the balance right.
I'm with you on the healthy skepticism, but I haven't given up hope. We've had modular systems work *well enough* for their intent: eg a container vs the linux kernel (did you know they are sometimes not compatible?), or even a good old Java library in a .jar file can be seen as a module.
As a teen I used to have lots of fun with Gentoo Linux; I wanted to learn it all in detail, but then gave up as I had a life and real work to do.
I forced myself to use it again for the last 6 months - sadly its tooling didn't evolve much at all π€
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Sure, it's not necessarily the right answer, and nobody is suggesting that it's easy to build a company based on an OSS project; yet clearly it can be done and nobody is forced to make this particular choice. I do believe it's a great choice for the Hibernate project and for Red Hat as sponsor.
AFAIK (ianal) the Apache foundation HAD to do it, you need to protect your trademarks. With that name, it could have been an initiative bootstrapped by sonatype as long as control was given to the Maven developers community. Or just don't use the name - it makes sense to not confuse us all!
Yay! My latest blog post about Quarkus and Raspberry Pi is out: quarkus.io/blog/quarkus...
Recently @redmonk.com had a conversation with @ebullient.dev, distinguished engineer at #RedHat & council chairperson @commonhaus.org. They discussed challenges faced by open source projects, the need for new foundations, and how Commonhaus aims to support developers. redmonk.com/blog/2024/11...