Java

Build Your First Hardened Quarkus Image with Jib and Java 25

The final Quarkus service in this article has no Dockerfile.

Jul 13 • Markus Eisele

Agentic Engineering Still Needs Human Judgment

After 510 daily posts on The Main Thread, this is a practical note on publishing cadence, Quarkus craft, and why agent-assisted work still needs…

Jul 11 • Markus Eisele

Give IBM Bob a Memory of the Quarkus Codebase

Indexed Quarkus with codebase-memory-mcp, ran the same @ConfigMapping trace with grep vs graph tools, compared cost

Jul 10 • Markus Eisele

Wanaku MCP Router: Getting Started on Your Laptop

Run a local Wanaku router, import an HTTP toolset, forward an upstream MCP server, and merge both into one agent catalog.

Jul 8 • Markus Eisele

Build a Similar-Incident Finder with Quarkus and Qdrant

Turn Java incidents into vectors with deterministic feature hashing, store them in Qdrant, and find the nearest past failures when production breaks.

Jul 6 • Markus Eisele

Quarkus Multitenancy Without Tenant Plumbing in Every Service

Use the Quarkiverse Multitenancy extension to resolve tenants from headers, JWTs, or custom sources and keep your service layer free of tenant plumbing.

Jul 5 • Markus Eisele

Quarkus SPDX SBOMs: JSON-LD, Licenses, Real Checks

Build a small Quarkus service, generate an SPDX 3.0.1 SBOM, inspect the JSON-LD graph, and see exactly where NTIA and CISA checks still fail.

Jul 3 • Markus Eisele

Build a Refund Workflow with Quarkus Flow 0.11

Build a small refund service that keeps policy in plain Java and lets Quarkus Flow handle CloudEvents, correlation, waiting state, and restart-safe…

Jul 2 • Markus Eisele

Quarkus Data Hibernate: A New Path for Java Persistence

Build a small catalog API to see generated repositories, checked HQL, managed updates, stateless writes, paging, validation, and tests in one realistic…

Jul 1 • Markus Eisele

How to Find Regression Risks in a Quarkus App Before You Write the Feature

Use IBM Bob to inspect a real Quarkus codebase, spot the dangerous paths around user deletion, and turn that analysis into a clearer test plan.

Jun 28 • Markus Eisele and Alex Soto Bueno

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Local AI in Quarkus Needs a Visible Memory Budget

Build a small Quarkus app that makes LangChain4j retained-memory pressure, Ollama call usage, and OpenTelemetry signals visible before eviction turns…

Jun 27 • Markus Eisele

Quarkus Repository Guardrails for Agent-Generated Java Code

Build a small Quarkus document API, catch unsafe native queries with Semgrep, and wire local hooks, agent instructions, and CI into one deterministic…

Jun 24 • Markus Eisele

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