# 134th airhacks.tv:  gRPC vs. REST, Quarkus, AI, Performance, Vector DBs--134th airhacks.tv

The 2025.05 / 134th edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics:

    REST is about manipulating resources with well-defined HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) while gRPC is just
    remote method invocation, Quarkus request-scoped beans are faster than in traditional Java EE due to lack of
    reflection, Java is 35x faster than Python making it better for AI inference and production, serverless architecture
    provides cost benefits by paying only for actual usage, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) can be implemented in
    Quarkus with predefined pipelines, Neo4j works well with LLMs due to its graph structure matching semantic
    relationships, document categorization with AI can be implemented by passing document chunks to embedding models and
    using vector databases, Java is getting better with each version with Java 24 being particularly strong,
    event-driven architecture works well for AI applications by chaining asynchronous operations

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