Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉

Father. Java Champion, Microsoft MVP, Speaker, Teacher, Radio Colab. Coauthor of multiple O’Reilly and Manning books.

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

Optimize Your Test Execution Order with Code Assistants:

♻️: Faster Feedback
🚄: Faster Pipelines
📏: Short lead-times

https://t.co/PbIlV4KK0N

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

Your Gherkin BDD Specs — From Existing Code or Plain Text Requirements.

👷‍♂️: Code Assistants can write BDD from code or plain text
📖: It is important to have a semi-formal way to express specifications
♻️: Automates Business code

https://t.co/p92tTgzPKF

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

Defining Performance Testing Values — Thresholds, Load Scenarios, and Success Criteria with Code Assistants:

🚅: Defines the best performance Strategy
🔨: Helps with coding
🗒️: Explains the reason for the parameters

https://t.co/eFX2xxjxon

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

@bercut2000 Thank you very much my friend

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

Code Assistants to Read Your JaCoCo Report and Tell You Exactly What to Test Next

🤖: Explore your current test coverage
🔨: Purpose How to easily increase
⭐️: Get more coverage

More coverage doesn't mean more quality, but it helps

https://t.co/BhLIduLgjy

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

@juvejuvellup @robert_calvo La vida, no l agafis. Per això la gent que treballa en un avio tr limitada el temps màxim a l any

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

@vilojona Que Laporta demani perdo a Messi i que torni. Que surti a les segones parts, ens sortirà molt millor que no pas fitxar del Atlètic de Madrid

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

@robert_calvo En vaig parlar a la secció de la ciutat sobre el bluetooth. Consumeixen tants pocs watts que tenen molt poca energia. Es molt pitjor anar amb avio degut a la radiació còsmica

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

Secure by Design: Protecting Java Applications with HashiCorp Vault and AI Code Assistants

🔒: Use HashiCorp Vault to keep your secrets secret
🔨: Code Assistants make the process smooth
☕️: Java is always the option

https://t.co/ffAZ8nfssA

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

Generates Negative Tests for Your Java API — Find What You Missed

👷‍♂️: Develop tests that verify what should not work
✅: The happy path is important, but what should not work is equally important

https://t.co/2diUfMutVk

[Markus Eisele @myfear]

Coverage reports are useful. Coverage targets are where teams get weird.

This piece shows a better workflow: generate a JaCoCo report from a Quarkus app, feed it to IBM Bob, and let the agent rank the testing gaps that matter before it writes anything.

https://t.co/sbUjiwbcZ9

#agents #ibmbob @alexsotob @IBMDeveloper

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

@IBM

[IBM @IBM]

We turn 115 today! 🥰

Say happy birthday 😠

[IBM Developer @IBMDeveloper]

Give AI agents access to the tools they need to take action.⚡️

@alexsotob shows how Java, Quarkus, and MCP can be used to extend IBM Bob with custom tools and integrations.

🎥: https://t.co/zKi8HmYFFh

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

From Prompt to Passing Tests. Create a Full Test Plan and Implement It with Code Assistants.

🗒️: Create a test plan
🔨: Build it in minutes
✅: Verify the execution

https://t.co/dEEvsL5gTc

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

@teknik_codes @MarkVillacampa Webpage, service, trains and everything they are a meme on their own

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

@geoand86 @mariofusco Quarkus LangChain4j Agent extension supports McpToolBox but does it supports ToolBox too? I couldn't see in the code.

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

How to Build Custom Skills — Step-by-Step Tutorial

🗒️: How to create Markdown files that add skills to your LLMs
👷‍♂️: Adding context to a Code Assistant
🔨: Customizing your Tool

https://t.co/s9Jg4nLXjI

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

@kevindubois @danieloh30 @myfear when your demo fails you can call it an anomaly if a rocket blows and it is anomaly everything can be an anomaly 🤣

[AltSpacium @Willspacefolio]

“An anomaly.”

[Alex Soto ☮️⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈💉💉💉 @alexsotob]

Migrating Jakarta EE EJBs to Quarkus — Stateless & Stateful Beans
🏗️: Modernizing Java Workloads
🧠: AI can help you with migrations
🚅: It is never too late, and fast

https://t.co/W1ongbqarz