Quarkus is the Opposite of Wildfly

An airhacks.fm conversation with Dimitris Andreadis (@dandreadis) about:

Amstrad CPC 484, but Commodore had better games, learning BASIC driven by lack of games, hacking game loaders, C is the favourite language, with C you have the full control, C is concise, ISO DEE, writing ISO network layers in Ireland, writing reactive code in 1994, beautiful C code, processing bibliographic data with DSLs, maintaining passion and fun at indexdata.dk, enjoying the time at navy, clueless mainframe operators, writing programs in COBOL instead of queries, PDP 11 as simulator for naval training, writing application servers in C++ for telecom, EJB-like components in C++, Java UIs in 1998, Java should be good enough for writing service provisoning platforms, accidental discovery of Java Management Extension (JMX), first Java impression was not as good, JBoss was a heavy JMX user, JBoss was always manageable because of JMX, Rickard Öberg was a genious, dynamic kernel with dynamic extensions, Marc Fleury started JBoss, JBoss 2 was a rewrite, JBoss 2 kernel was the base for project "Junction" renamed to Action Streamer, JBoss became more interesting than the day job, core JBoss developer since 2004, CORBA / CSIv2 skills were needed for J2EE certification, transferring transactions and security context with CORBA extensions, JBoss was the first J2EE certified server, Dimitris was project lead for JBoss 4 and 5, later manager, now responsible for Thorntail, Vertx and Quarkus, in JBoss CORBA objects were dynamically generated, the paper: "The JBoss Extensible Server" from brazilian professor, Thrift, gRPC and Co. are CORBA, just reinvented, CORBA network layer is very efficient, EJBs killed CORBA, JBoss unified the web container and EJB container in a single JVM to prevent remote communication, microservices are distributed, sometimes unnecessarily, EJBs and WebContainers had to split into separate JVMs back then as well, Quarkus is the exact opposite of WildFly, Quarkus and WildFly also have different goals, the WildFly.next discussions at RedHat, Jason Greene and Bob McWhirter had WildFly discussions, Emanuel proposed a single runtime for everyone, the one base runtime for everyone prototype, SubstrateVM produced the best native code, Hibernate on Quarkus was a break-through, Quarkus is a collective, interdisciplinary effort at RedHat, Quarkus started in spring 2018, Quarkus pushes the Java EE deployment model further and the optimisations are collateral, Quarkus looks and feels like Java EE or MicroProfile, Quarkus does not require proprietary imports, Quarkus went for native optimization, and optimized HotSpot JVM as well, Quarkus build makes code less memory hungry at HotSpot, Quarkus takes have of the memory with fast startup time, Quarkus comes also with runtime improvements in HotSpot and native mode, the idea for build-time optimizations started at WildFly, with pre-computing the deployment model, Quarkus extension model allows the integration of 3rd-party code for native compilation, Quarkus development mode comes with scripting-like experience, Quarkus FatJars aren't fat, nor self-contained, Quarkus runner-jars are optimized for Docker and so clouds, Quarkus offers imerative and reactive APIs, Netty, Vert.x and Undertow are unified inside Quarkus, Panache ORM is an experiment, but could become a MicroProfile or Jakarta EE standard, working with standards is difficult, Quarkus pushes standards further, developers hack the code first, then standard comes, writing Kubernetes operators with Quarkus

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