Blogs, Quarkus, Service Meshes, Kubernetes, MicroProfile, Neo4J, openJ9, AsciiDoc

An airhacks.fm conversation with Sebastian Daschner (@daschners: Sebastian was introduced in airhacks.fm episode #2, and also appeared in episodes #31, #47 and #54) about:

designing blog engines, pagination strategies, implementing a blog engine with Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, a modified Apache Roller, static page generators, using Quarkus instead of a web server, HTML, emmet and Visual Studio Code, AsciiDoc and Markdown, asciidoctorj on application servers, using git with jgit as storage, misusing Quarkus on GraalVM as a local, native app, file storage vs. databases, the Neo4j involvement, Neo4j on Quarkus, the advantages of a graph database, Object Graph Mapping (OGM) on Quarkus, running Quarkus on JVM in production, Quarkus in native mode as command line application, Graph Database vs. Document Databases, scaling Neo4j challenges, modelling the graph, types and dates as entities, entity relationship model (ERM), attributive relations in ERM, Neo4j cypher scripts, using Neo4j for blog implementation, the Neo4j browser, the remaining use cases for service meshes and istio, traffic management and authentication with istio, linkerd, istio, envoy, service mesh features could merge into kubernetes, observability MicroProfile Metrics vs. Istio metrics, service mesh metrics are a starting point, Neo4j with Quarkus, managing Neo4j transactions with JTA (Java Transaction API), Neo4j comes with great Spring support, Convention over Configuration in Java EE, Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, switching from Spring to Jakarta EE, jaxenter survey results, wad.sh and Java 11, continuous build and deployment, Quarkus startup times, Quarkus on RaspberryPi airhacks.fm podcast episode, reaction to Quarkus startup times on twitter, Java is performant and highly productive, Visual Studio Code comes with good Java experience, the maintainability of running plain kubernetes, IBM comes with IBM Kubernetes Service (IKS), OpenShift on IBM Cloud, IBM container registry, openJ9, Docklands: a collection of docker files, running Quarkus on openJ9 article, the Effective Developer Podcast,

Sebastian Daschner on twitter: @daschners, Sebastian's blog: https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com