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Floci, Great LLM Apps, BCE Outbound Integrations, Hexagonal vs. BCE--Questions for the 151st airhacks.tv 📎

Questions and topics for the 2026.10/151th edition of airhacks.tv:
  1. The homework / challenge: "How could hexagonal architecture improve the BCE eBank application?"
  2. Experience with Floci (the Quarkus-based AWS emulator) for local CDK deployments and testing minimal Quarkus serverless projects--integrated into CDK pipelines, or still testing against real AWS accounts?
  3. In a BCE-based Quarkus application: are outbound integrations Boundaries as well? REST endpoint, external clients and repository all in boundary, orchestration in control, domain model in entity?
  4. Boundary interfaces used by the control hiding the Quarkus REST Clients behind their implementations--or unnecessary abstraction in BCE?
  5. Thoughts/update on the JavaOne 2026 presentation: "How to Write Great Java Apps with LLMs and Agents"
  6. "What Hexagonal Architecture Adds to a Boundary-Control-Entity (BCE) Project"
  7. The state of "Architect-Grade Java with LLMs"
  8. Why I'm using VSC?
  9. Time machine: 100 episodes back (51st episode):
    Release versioning and git tagging strategies, branching for production vs. testing, build/release workflow automation and auto-deploy, portable multipart file upload with plain JAX-RS, MVC 1.0 future and alternatives for server-side templates with vanilla JS and Web Components, PrimeFaces as a WildFly module instead of WAR packaging, @Stateless vs. @Singleton for JAX-RS resources and thread safety, real-world CI with Jenkins, Maven and Git, structured JSON logging with java.util.logging vs. Log4j 2, separate vs. unified stacks for logs and metrics (Elasticsearch/Kibana vs. Prometheus/Grafana), push-based metrics emission vs. REST metrics endpoints, WebAssembly as the future of the web

Any questions left? Ask now: gist.github.com/AdamBien/c76cf8b4eefeb8239b578c4a1d0009b7 and get the answers at the next airhacks.tv. Some questions are also answered with a short video: 60 seconds or less with Java

Ask questions during the show via twitter mentioning me: https://twitter.com/AdamBien (@AdamBien),using the hashtag: #airhacks or built-in chat at: airhacks.tv. You can join the Q&A session live each first Monday of month, 8 P.M at airhacks.tv