# 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 even more…

- URL: https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-89/
- Published: 2026-01-26
- Authors: Frank Delporte, Michal Maléř, Holly Cummins
- Categories: Podcast


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 even more expert knowledge in this podcast! We talk about Quarkus, how it is "cloud-native", how it compares to other frameworks, the advantages for developers and managers, etc. We also discussed nano businesses and how they can serve as a model for paying creators of digital content, thanks to x402 and ERC-8004.

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## Guests

### Michal Maléř

Red Hat Technical Writer \| Eclipse Foundation Committer \| Sovryn ex-contributor \| Hackernoon Blockchain writer

* <https://foojay.io/today/author/michal-maler/>
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/michal-maléř-69344692/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michal-mal%C3%A9%C5%99-69344692/)
* <https://www.mickeymaler.com/>

### Holly Cummins

Senior Principal Software Engineer ⭐ Making Developer Joy Happen

* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cummins/>
* <https://hollycummins.com/>
* <https://noti.st/holly-cummins>

## Links

* Foojay posts:
  * [Quarkus: A Runtime and Framework for Cloud-Native Java](https://foojay.io/today/quarkus-a-runtime-and-framework-for-cloud-native-java/)
  * [Optimizing Java for the Cloud-Native Era with Quarkus](https://foojay.io/today/optimizing-java-for-the-cloud-native-era-with-quarkus/)
  * [Not a Lucid Web3 Dream Anymore: x402, ERC-8004, A2A, and The Next Wave of AI Commerce](https://foojay.io/today/not-a-lucid-web3-dream-anymore-x402-erc-8004-a2a-and-the-next-wave-of-ai-commerce/)
* [J-Spring 2023: Five Tricks for Java - Holly Cummins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCQKYStnqW8): The code we write has a climate impact. But how big is that impact? How do we measure it? How do we reduce it? Is the cloud helping?
* [JavaFX In Action #10 with Clément de Tastes about QuarkusFX, combining the strengths of Quarkus and JavaFX](https://webtechie.be/post/2024-11-19-jfxinaction-clement-de-tastes/)
* [Comparing a REST H2 Spring versus Quarkus application on Raspberry Pi](https://webtechie.be/post/2020-07-28-spring-versus-quarkus-rest-h2-db-on-raspberry-pi/)
* [Open Source Collective](https://opencollective.com/opensource)
* [Commonhaus Foundation](https://www.commonhaus.org/)
* [A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools](https://cassidoo.co/post/ai-llm-discoverability/)

## Content

00:00 Introduction of topic and guests  

01:04 Why contribute to Foojay as an author  

01:33 What is Quarkus?  

02:56 Quarkus compared with other frameworks  

05:08 Quarkus a replacement for JVM?  

06:40 Build time optimization versus Ahead Of Time (AOT) versus Just In Time (JIT)  

12:53 Other important facts about Quarkus  

18:13 Impact on Cloud financial and ecological cost  

21:31 Vert.x reactive toolkit compared to Virtual Threads  

24:14 New features in Quarkus  

26:02 Is Quarkus more modern compared to other frameworks?  

27:13 What are chain transactions  

31:10 How can a (web) author earn from his content?  

35:54 How this can impact open-source development  

38:34 Will these open standards get adopted?  

39:47 How opensource can be funded (Commonhaus)  

43:00 How content creators could be funded and publish their content in the future  

46:01 MCP as content distribution (with Quarkus)?  

46:49 Conclusion