An airhacks.fm conversation with Ales Justin (@alesj) about:

Slovenian Christmas traditions,

career journey from Bitcoin to Strimzi to quarkus development,

Quarkus gRPC implementation using Google's legacy gRPC versus native Vert.x-based gRPC server,

plans to make Vert.x gRPC the default in Quarkus with Vert.x 5,

gRPC transcoding and gRPC-web browser support coming with new Vert.x version,

OpenTelemetry integration in Quarkus with Bruno Baptista leading the effort,

LGTM container image from Grafana containing Loki Grafana Tempo and Mimir for observability testing,

Quarkus observability dev services providing out-of-the-box Grafana dashboards,

custom Grafana dashboard configuration support in Quarkus applications,

evolution from MicroProfile Metrics to micrometer to OpenTelemetry as the preferred standard,

Protocol Buffers (protobuf) version migration challenges from proto 3 to proto 4 breaking Pulsar integration,

WebAssembly-based protoc compiler replacing platform-specific binaries reducing dependency size from 100MB to 2MB,

gRPC service development in Quarkus using GRPCService annotation and generated classes,

gRPC client injection using GRPCClient annotation similar to REST client pattern,

sharing protobuf definitions between projects using Git submodules for source code sharing,

gRPC bidirectional streaming support in Quarkus,

OpenTelemetry spans attributes and events for business and technical observability,

gRPC interceptors for server and client telemetry instrumentation,

VictoriaMetrics as Prometheus-compatible alternative with push-based metrics,

OpenTelemetry logging support in Quarkus,

OpenBlend Slovenia Java conference history from Java Blend to Oracle partnership,

conference details with 400-450 attendees at Slovenian Adriatic coast in late May