Erin Schnabel

the one thing we ALL crave: more "excitement" at our jobs

part of the "commercials" we produce for Leet Heat on @codetv.dev, featuring @marisamorby.com and @anniesexton.com

YouTube video by Devoxx UK Devoxx UK 2025 Speaker Interview - Marit van Dijk

One of the additional perks of @devoxx.uk this year was doing a speaker interview with @ammbra1508.bsky.social. We sat down to talk about my talks at #DevoxxUK and our work as Developer Advocates. youtu.be/U_kqqQj2qyg

The Productive Developer’s Guide to Flaky Tests Learn practical strategies for minimizing the negative impact of flaky tests and fostering a culture of test reliability.

The awesome team at @gradle.com have taken my blog posts and Opinions about Flaky Tests and put them all together in a very wonderful white paper!

Whether you care about #FlakyTests or think you don't have them, there's something in here for you.

#DeveloperProductivity #TestAutomation

The internals (and a few externals) of Quarkus test classloading have changed Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java

My oldest-ever PR has merged (almost 2 years 😳), and Quarkus 3.22 has a new test-classloading architecture. It should be that nothing changes for users, but ... a few things might change: quarkus.io/blog/test-cl...

He is the bestest (as are you)

Us developers have learned the hard way that:

1. Prototyping is more like 10% of the actual work - even though the business folks thinks we're 90% done

2. Shipping prototypes to production is possible but generally a bad idea

Vibe coding is prototyping. Others will learn - soon

🎂 Commonhaus Turns One — A Look Back, and the Road Ahead Commonhaus Foundation celebrates its first anniversary and lays down expectations for its future

Commonhaus is 1! 🎂
14 projects, solid foundations, and more on the way.

If you believe in light governance, shared care, and thoughtful support for open source, come see what we’re building.

www.commonhaus.org/activity/253...

Commonhaus has been a great home for SlateDB. They're looking for more projects (especially non-Java ones!). I highly recommend joining. :)

The JVM’s Secret Bottleneck & The Next Wave in Spring AI and MCP, Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup **Title: The JVM’s Secret Bottleneck by Sanne Grinovero (Lead of the opensource Hibernate project!)** This presentation will delve into a serious JVM performance issue that

Rare chance to see me in person in Singapore!

March 27 I'll present on an extremely interesting JVM performance topic:

www.meetup.com/singadev/eve...

Also looking forwards to network and discuss anything related to @quarkus.io , @hibernate.org , @commonhaus.org
😉

A RedMonk Conversation: Erin Schnabel on the Commonhaus Foundation https://bit.ly/4g780ty
#CommonHaus #Java

@ebullient.dev talking about @commonhaus.org at @devnexus.bsky.social with Yolande and @neo4j.bsky.social
#commonhaus #foreverHome

HA! What a thumbnail 🤣

That's a wrap for @devnexus.bsky.social 2025! And what a fantastic event it was – as usual! Thank you to @mayers.io, @prpatel.dev and the rest of the Atlanta JUG team for yet another success! 🎉👍

Me at a podium before one of my talks at Devnexus 2025.

That's a wrap on the incredible @devnexus.bsky.social #devnexus2025! Thank you to the organizers, attendees, sponsors, and fellow speakers!

I rate Devnexus as the best tech conference that I get to attend! The community, the learning, the fun ... thank you!

Erin

Listening to @ebullient.dev explain her workflow process for @commonhaus.org at @devnexus.bsky.social: “Streamlining Open Source Foundation Operations with Quarkus and @github.com Actions” #devnexus

@kitomann.bsky.social
@ebullient.dev
@brjavaman.bsky.social
@myfear.com

Comparing Apache, CNCF, and Commonhaus | cnr.sh I've used open source projects for over 30 years and contributed for about 20 of those. My first interaction with an open source foundation was with Apache when I began working with Apache Hadoop ...

cnr.sh/posts/compar...

Was a blast to be there. Thanks for having me. ❤️

Just recorded an awesome live Off Heap episode @devnexus.bsky.social with @ebullient.dev and @ivargrimstad.bsky.social . Talking about @apache.org @eclipsefdn.bsky.social and @commonhaus.org . Great discussion about what each foundation can bring to the table.

This version of the talk does not have any kangaroos, but I'm still proud of it.

#valentines

Debezium Joins the Commonhaus Foundation The Debezium project recently completed its move to the Commonhaus Foundation after consulting with the Debezium community and Red Hat, who exclusively sponsored the project since the start in 2015.

"Debezium Joins the Commonhaus Foundation"

Good @infoq.com coverage on #Debezium's recent move to @commonhaus.org, by @johanjanssen.bsky.social. A neutral home is the right choice for most open-source projects.

www.infoq.com/news/2025/02...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

You can’t post your way out of fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."

404 Media has been doing amazing work too. It's not a coincidence that the tech-focused sites are the ones explaining what's at stake.

@devnexus.bsky.social is my favorite (Java, AI, and Cloud) conference. I'll be there (Soon! March!) showing how I use automation like GitHub actions and GitHub apps built with @quarkus.io to simplify @commonhaus.org operations.

Use SPEAK40 to get 40% off the ticket price.

By the way, because almost all the people I’ve worked with are men, the whole «men and women can’t actually be friends 🧠» discourse actively harms me. A ton of men and women believe that crap. Well, that means what? I have to go through life with no one speaking to me? wtf? People need to stop that.

A little diversion because it's been that kind of month.

First, the interesting attitudes of some prominent tech bros bring this to mind:

medium.com/the-secret-h...

And this was just plain fun to read:

www.eleanorkonik.com/p/on-the-dip...

GitHub - quarkiverse/quarkus-mcp-servers: Model Context Protocol Servers in Quarkus Model Context Protocol Servers in Quarkus. Contribute to quarkiverse/quarkus-mcp-servers development by creating an account on GitHub.

well look at that:

kubernetes MCP available from github.com/quarkiverse/... thanks to @marcnuri.com

and github.com/wildfly-extr... a WildFly MCP server using Quarkus by jfdenise!

Through the Looking Glass: A Silicon Valley Story On Martin Luther King Day 2024, watching tech leaders align with authoritarianism, I kept thinking about Alice in Wonderland.

When brilliant people mistake wealth for wisdom, they corrupt not just democracy but technology's promise itself. - Lexi Reese
lexireese.substack.com/p/through-th...

Thanks, Holly. 🥰