Quarkus optimizations that change the cold-start budget for serverless workloads on Java

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Quarkus 3.35 ships three optimizations that, stacked together, change the cold-start budget for serverless workloads on Java: build-time JAR tree-shaking, Profile-Guided Optimization for native builds, and Semeru AOT support. Each one targets a different layer. Tree-shaking cuts the classes you ship. PGO improves native code quality. Semeru AOT reduces JVM startup time for teams that … Read more

Agentic products at scale: what the demo hides

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Recently, I sat in on a talk at StartSe AI Festival 2026 that stayed with me for days. On stage was Isabella Piratininga, iFood’s Director of Technology and Innovation, and the subject was building agentic products at scale, told through the case of Ailo, iFood’s conversational assistant. Let me be upfront from the start: this … Read more