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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

12 years ago GCP Grey was already right on the money! Interesting times ahead!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-...

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What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us

YouTube video by CGP Grey

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DHH's keynote at Rails World 2026 perfectly encapsulates how I felt for the last few months: - Writing code by hand is no longer economically viable - Programming languages no longer matter - Software dev is now in an Age of Abundance. No more scarcity! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW...

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Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote - DHH

YouTube video by Ruby on Rails

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Sometimes it's the little details that matter. We have been using these automatic reruns internally for a while. We couldn't imagine going back. 🎉

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Well deserved! @jooq.org is such a great product and Lukas has been building it consistently and meticulously since 2009!!

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Rafael Winterhalter @rafaelcodes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I had the pleasure of traveling home to Munich to talk to Marco about software, and I quite enjoyed it! And I will hope you will, too. Thanks for having me.

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Almost everyone working with the JVM has used his code directly or indirectly. Don't miss Marco Behler's fascinating interview with @rafaelcodes.bsky.social, the author of Byte Buddy, the JVM's best bytecode manipulation library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azfh...

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Modern Bytecode Instrumentation with ByteBuddy – Rafael Winterhalter | The Marco Show

YouTube video by IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

For operating Flyway and now @sprinters_sh as a business, REWORK by Jason Fried and DHH was by far the biggest inspiration. Warning: Your preconceptions about how to run a business will be seriously challenged! And once you read it, there is no way back! basecamp.com/books#rework

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

For Flyway, there were 3 pivotal pieces of writing that each in turn single-handedly convinced me to create, grow and eventually sell the business.

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Here it is! The backstory of Flyway: From Open Source Side Project to Multimillion Exit 🔥 This is the first time I talked about this in public and we covered a lot of ground, in detail! Thank you Marco Behler for having me on your show! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwF2...

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Flyway: From Open Source Side Project to Multimillion Exit – Axel Fontaine | The Marco Show

YouTube video by IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I've started kicking the tires of Omarchy, an exciting new Linux distro by @dhh that's like nothing you've seen before! It's not quite there yet for my workflows with IntelliJ, but it's looking very promising!

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Using modern compressed RAM disks is such a joy! I moved almost all our internal builds over and they now run 10-20% faster, with just this simple change! The only ones left out are our image builds which really need a disk as they literally use hundreds of GiBs of temp storage!

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Those are some seriously large GitHub Actions runners! I am happy we managed to get these into your hands within 48 hours of AWS announcing them 🎉

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

We already moved some of our own builds to ap-south-1. With this using Sprinters is now a whopping 89% cheaper than GitHub Actions without even using spot instances!

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Working with Kotlin, @jooq.org and IntelliJ? Do yourself a favor and upgrade to IntelliJ 2025.1.2 right now to finally fix all jOOQ-related slowdowns and make it usable in K2 mode! youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTIJ-3...

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If you're using PostgreSQL and need a message queue, check out PGMQ github.com/tembo-io/pgmq We've had great results with it for @sprinters.bsky.social. Pure SQL, tx integration and thank to my PR, it can now be installed without creating extension (great for RDS, Cloud SQL, ...)

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GitHub - tembo-io/pgmq: A lightweight message queue. Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres.

A lightweight message queue. Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres. - tembo-io/pgmq

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Upgraded already! Worked like a charm, as expected, and I could remove 3 workarounds we had in place for 3.19 in @sprinters.bsky.social 🎉

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Rafael Winterhalter @rafaelcodes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I made a mistake in my changed build and 1.16.1 now offers the actual support for this.

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Axel Fontaine @axelfontaine.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

After months of beta testing, I am excited to announce our new product: Sprinters Run GitHub Actions jobs 10x cheaper by changing 1 line in your workflow yml Like I did for Flyway, we focussed on simplicity, security and no-brainer pricing. Check it out: sprinters.sh

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Run your GitHub Actions jobs 10x cheaper on your own AWS account - Sprinters

Run your GitHub Actions jobs 10x cheaper on your own AWS account.

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