Quarkus at dev2next 2025

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Event Description: dev2next is the premier conference designed for software developers, architects, technology leaders, development managers, and directors. Explore cutting-edge strategies, tools, and essential practices for building powerful applications using the latest trends and good practices.

Date: September 29th - October 2nd
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Event Type: In Person

https://www.dev2next.com/

Sessions

Session Title: Quarkus for Spring Developers
Speaker(s): Eric Deandrea
Day/Time: TBD
Abstract: In this session, I will show concepts and conventions familiar to Spring developers and how those same concepts and conventions can be implemented in Quarkus, all while highlighting similarities and differences between them. Additionally, I will show similarities and differences in how testing is done, highlighting Quarkus Dev Services.

This session will be mostly live coding while minimizing the amount of slides. I will introduce an existing Spring application with a full test suite and build a Quarkus equivalent version of it, live, while showcasing similarities and differences between the two frameworks.

Session Title: Test-Driven Development: It's easier than you think!
Speaker(s): Eric Deandrea
Day/Time: TBD
Abstract: Everyone loves writing tests, don’t they? How do you write good tests? What tools are available for you to write good tests?

In this session, I will dive into the many features of Quarkus that help developers write good tests. I will highlight some of the features of Quarkus, Dev Services and Continuous Testing, which help make testing easier. Additionally, I will live code some tests for common use cases developers encounter, including unit, integration, and “black box” testing of imperative and reactive RESTful and event-driven applications that use common services, such as databases and Kafka brokers. I will discuss techniques such as mocking, spying, and interaction-based testing/verification.

I'll even spend some time showing how IDE-based AI assistants can help!

Once you see how easy TDD really can be there isn't a reason to not do it!