Holly Cummins

Holly Cummins is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team and a Java Champion. Before Quarkus, she spent years at IBM in roles ranging from cloud consultant to JVM performance engineer. She has worked across Quarkus sustainability, dev services and testing, and led the migration of quarkus.io itself from Jekyll to Roq. She holds a PhD in Quantum Computation.

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Foojay Podcast #102: Why Foojay Walked Away From WordPress for Static Sites

Foojay walked away from WordPress after six years. Andy Damevin and Holly Cummins join to weigh CMS security and cost against Hugo, Jekyll …

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Foojay Podcast #89: Quarkus and Agentic Commerce

For this episode of the Foojay Podcast, we invited the author of three recent posts published on Foojay. And he brought a colleague to get …

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