Foivos Zakkak
@foivos.zakkak.net
Software Engineer @ #IBM working on #Quarkus native and the #Mandrel distribution of #GraalVM @zakkak@mastodon.online on mastodon
I missed old Doodle polls, so I built a replacement. Instead of asking when you're free, it asks when you're not. Conflicts get marked. The best time reveals itself in the empty space. Free, open-source, no accounts ever: timeslot.ink
timeslot.ink | Group Scheduling
A stateless, serverless group scheduling utility. No accounts, no tracking, just dates.
timeslot.ink
Final month of #AERO - and we're not slowing down! Run GPU-accelerated LLMs in pure Java from a @quarkus.io #Langchain4j apps. No Python. No CUDA. Just #Java with @tornadovm.org. A collab between @manchester.ac.uk & Red Hat! 🔗 aero-project.eu/posts/runnin... #Java #LLM #AI #LLM #GPU #opensource
In this #InfoQ #podcast, Andy Damevin explores #Roq - a static site generator built on top of #Quarkus. He covers: • The motivation behind the project • Why Java & Quarkus were chosen • Migration to Roq • Its future direction 🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/3QQZF5V #Java #SoftwareDevelopment
TIL about the GPS-UP metric for comparing software energy efficiency and quite interesting.
GPS-UP: A Better Metric For Comparing Software Energy Efficiency | Green Software Foundation
Learn about Greenup, Powerup and Speedup (GPS-UP), an easy to use energy metric that helps developers, students, and researchers understand the energy efficiency of their optimizations in order to mak...
greensoftware.foundation
Modern DRAM is based on a brilliant design from IBM. But, we're still paying for a latency penalty that's existed since the 60s! In this video, I'm introducing my research project (Tailslayer) that immensely reduces p99.99 latency on traditional RAM!
🤥 🚩 Η παραπληροφόρηση δεν μένει μόνο στα social media. Φτάνει και στην εκπαίδευση. 👀 Ερευνούμε πώς την επηρεάζει, και θέλουμε να ακούσουμε τη δική σας εμπειρία.
Well, my #Java journey has come to an end. Today my role at Oracle has been terminated. I’m open to any job leads y’all may have.
Java framework benchmarks are easy to get wrong. The new Quarkus benchmark results are interesting — but the real story is the engineering work behind them. Reproducible environments. Transparent methodology. Real collaboration across the team. buff.ly/RjdXcuY #Java #Quarkus #Benchmarking
In this new post, @gsmet.bsky.social explains how Project Leyden gave us a fresh perspective on improving Quarkus, and more broadly Java, applications startup. Library or framework developer? This one’s for you. quarkus.io/blog/leyden-1/
How Project Leyden brought a new perspective
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java
quarkus.io
...and yes, the video shows Doom as well as a video player implemented using @tamboui.dev www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERAp...
TamboUI Trailer
YouTube video by TamboUI
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Password managers don’t protect secrets if pwned. You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised. . #bitwarden #cryptography #dashlane #encryption #lastpass #password www.theregister.com/202...
Password managers don’t protect secrets if pwned
: Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options
theregister.com
⏰ Starting soon! Join us for Quarkus Insights Ep. #235 as Robert Toyonaga, Severin Gehworlf, Karm Babacek, Foivos Zakkak, Sanne Grinovero, and Galder Zamarreno join us to discuss the release of Mandrel 25. bit.ly/quarkusinsig... #java #quarkus #quarkusinsights
The never ending quest to keep doing what you're good at and get better at it...rather than making another PowerPoint about what you worked on last week. https://archive.is/20251008122439/https://www.fastcompany.com/91407281/what-is-rust-out-and-could-you-be-experiencing-it-burnout-work
Life Has No Autoscaling: An Architect’s Guide to Living Within 24 Hours How I apply system design thinking to sleep, work, family, and expectations and why resilience matters more than perfection. buff.ly/ip9Vlls #WorkLife #MentalHealth
📢 Microsoft is hiring a Senior Compiler Engineer to work on the #JVM! If you have strong compiler / codegen / optimization skills, this could be your next big challenge. Want a referral? Send me a DM. #Hiring #CompilerEngineering #Systems #Microsoft #Java #OpenJDK #Java25
GraalVM 25 is here, with lots of updates for native compilation, GraalPy, GraalJS, and WebAssembly. Faster and better than ever!🐰🚀 Download: www.graalvm.org/downloads/ Release notes: www.graalvm.org/release-note...
Thanks to our sponsors we decided to make the event free for students You can either join as a volunteer by filling this form https://voxxed-greece.typeform.com/to/tyCRy8Mf Or... you can register as a student for free https://www.eventora.com/en/Events/vdcrete-25/
🚀 DEMO TIME v1.4.0 is out! Built for devs who present code — now even smoother, more flexible, and powerful: ✅ Multi-slide Markdown support ✅ Countdown pause/resume ✅ And much more… 🎁 Big thanks to contributors like @leonardomontini.dev! 👉 Check it out: demotime.elio.dev #VSCode #DevTools
In this year's #JCrete hackday I decided to toy claude code to start incorporating genAI tools (that go beyond slack-chats/mail/meeting summaries, etc.) in my day to day work. My first attempt was kind of a disaster and I ended up writing a script to the job, but today I had my first success story.
Congratulations to our colleagues from the National Technical University of Athens for winning the Best Paper Award at #HotStorage25! 🥇🎉 SnapBPF is an eBPF-based snapshot prefetcher for VM-based serverless functions - developed within our project. 🇪🇺 Well deserved! 👏 @eucloudedgeiot.bsky.social
AERO Project@aero-project.eu · last yr.Join our colleagues from National University of Athens at #HotStorage25! They will present SnapBPF, an eBPF-based snapshot prefetching system for VM-sandboxed serverless functions - built in our project. 🇪🇺 🗓️ Thu, July 10 | 🕥 10:30–11:45 EDT 📄 zenodo.org/records/1583... #eBPF #serverless #cloud
Building with AI? Don’t skip safety. This article explains how LLM guardrails can protect your applications and users: snyk.io/articles/ens...
Ensuring Safe and Reliable AI Interactions with LLM Guardrails | Snyk
Explore LLM guardrails, why they matter, and how you can effectively implement them to ensure safe and trustworthy AI interactions.
snyk.io
Let's #workTogether ! No job description yet, but, hear me out: I've recently left #RedHat, to do something I feel is more meaningful: help build a better home for #OpenSource: radicle.xyz We're now looking for someone with experience in the #frontend world and a #UX focus to join my team! 👇
Radicle
Sovereign code infrastructure.
radicle.xyz
@jmtd.bsky.social documents how to deploy slimmer Java application containers on OpenShift developers.redhat.com/articles/202...
Jlink integration with OpenShift tech preview release | Red Hat Developer
Announcing the release of the first tech preview of the jlink integration with OpenShift for OpenJDK containers
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What mid-size and larger tech companies are *still* full-remote? Lots of ones with 100+ devs went back to hybrid. Which ones remain? Ones I know of: - Shopify - Airbnb - Coinbase - GitLab - Mozilla - Grafana - DuckDuckGo Which other ones?
