Quarkus 101: Intro To Java Development With Quarkus

Greetings everyone!

We hope you had a great year-ending and are ready for another great year in 2023! For our first event of 2023, we have the great pleasure to welcome Kevin Dubois, Developer Advocate at Red Hat.

This event will be hosted at Ordina Belgium in Mechelen. Check them out at: https://www.ordina.be/en/

Today's topic

Java is a great programming language, however 'traditional' Java isn't so great to work with when it comes to modern, Cloud Native development. Quarkus is a (fairly) new Java stack that addresses issues such as the typical slow startup time and rather large memory usage that hinder the adoption of Java in container and/or Serverless workloads. Quarkus is not just useful for optimizing resource usage though. There is also a big focus on improving the developer experience.

In this session we'll demonstrate how Quarkus is very easy to work with and allows developers to work with containers and external dependencies such as databases, Kafka clusters, Kubernetes etc without being experts in any of these technologies. After this session, the audience should come away with inspiration to build modern Cloud Native applications with Java, and have fun doing so!

About our speaker

Kevin is a software engineer turned developer advocate who is on a mission to supercharge developer joy and productivity using Open Source as the guiding light. Kevin previously worked as a (Lead) Software Engineer at a variety of organizations ranging from small startups to large US enterprises and even the Belgian public sector.

When not hacking away on his computer or talking at conferences, you can find Kevin somewhere in the wild hiking, gravel biking, snowboarding down mountains or packrafting (up and) down WW rivers.

To learn more, follow them on Twitter https://twitter.com/kevindubois or Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@kevindubois

Schedule

• 18:00: doors + food
• 19:00: Talk(s)

Additional note: This meetup includes food. We therefore ask you to please keep your RSVP status up to date so we do not waste any of our food.