quarkusio · insectengine · Feb 6, 2025 · Jan 30, 2025 · Feb 3, 2025 · Feb 4, 2025
diff --git a/_data/projectfooter.yaml b/_data/projectfooter.yaml
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ links:
         url: /events
       - page: Newsletter
         url: /newsletter
+      - page: User Stories
+        url: /userstories
       - page: Roadmap
         url: https://github.com/orgs/quarkusio/projects/13/views/1
       - page: Security&nbsp;policy

diff --git a/_includes/books-band.html b/_includes/books-band.html
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
-<div class="component-wrapper books-band">
-  {% for item in site.data.books %}
-    <div class="width-6-12 book">
-      <div class="grid-wrapper">
-        <div class="img-wrapper">
-          <a href="{{ item.link }}" target="_blank">
-            <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/images/books/{{ item.thumbnail }}">
-          </a>
-        </div>
-        <div class="info-wrapper">
-          <h4 class="mt-0"><a href="{{ item.link }}" target="_blank">{{ item.title }}</a></h4>
-          <p>{{ item.description }}</p>
-          <small>
-            Publish Date: {{ item.publish-date }}<br/>
-            Author(s): {{ item.authors }}
-          </small>
+<div class="full-width-bg component-slim">
+  <div class="grid-wrapper click-cards">
+    <div class="width-12-12 width-12-12-m">
+    </div>
+
+    {% for item in site.data.books %}
+      <div class="card">
+        <a href="{{ item.link }}"></a>
+        <div>
+          <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/assets/images/books/{{ item.thumbnail }}">          
+          <p class="title">{{ item.title }}</p>
+          <div class="description">
+          <p>{{ item.description }}</p></div>
+          <div class="metatext">Publish Date: {{ item.publish-date }}<br/>
+            Author(s): {{ item.authors }}</div>
         </div>
       </div>
-    </div>
-  {% endfor %}
+    {% endfor %}
+
+  </div>
 </div>
diff --git a/_includes/header-navigation.html b/_includes/header-navigation.html
@@ -19,16 +19,15 @@
           <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/kubernetes-native" class="{% if page.url contains '/kubernetes-native/' %}active{% endif %}">KUBERNETES NATIVE</a></li>
           <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/standards" class="{% if page.url contains '/standards/' %}active{% endif %}">STANDARDS</a></li>
           <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/versatility" class="{% if page.url contains '/versatility/' %}active{% endif %}">VERSATILITY</a></li>
-          <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/container-first" class="{% if page.url contains '/container-first/' %}active{% endif %}">CONTAINER FIRST</a></li>
-
-
+          <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/container-first" class="{% if page.url contains '/container-first/' %}active{% endif %}">CONTAINER FIRST</a></li>          
         </ul>
       </li>
       <li class="dropdown">
         <span href="{{site.baseurl}}/learn/">Learn<i class="fas fa-chevron-down"></i></span>
         <ul class="submenu">
           <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/get-started" class="{% if page.url contains '/get-started/' %}active{% endif %}">GET STARTED</a></li>
           <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/guides" class="{% if page.url contains '/guides/' %}active{% endif %}">DOCUMENTATION</a></li>
+          <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/userstories/" class="{% if page.url contains '/userstories/' %}active{% endif %}">USER STORIES</a></li>  
           <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/qtips" class="{% if page.url contains '/qtips/' %}active{% endif %}">"Q" TIP VIDEOS</a></li>          
           <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/books" class="{% if page.url contains '/books/' %}active{% endif %}">BOOKS</a></li>
           </ul>

diff --git a/_includes/homepage-userstory-callout.html b/_includes/homepage-userstory-callout.html
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     <div class="grid__item width-10-12 width-12-12-m">
       <p class="callout-quote">{{ site.data.callout-quotes.quote }}</p>
       <p class="callout-credit">- {{ site.data.callout-quotes.author }}</p>
-      <p class="callout-links"><a href="{{ site.data.callout-quotes.usecaselink }}">Read this User Story</a> | <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/blog/tag/user-story/">See All User Stories</a></p>
+      <p class="callout-links"><a href="{{ site.data.callout-quotes.usecaselink }}">Read this User Story</a> | <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/userstories/">See All User Stories</a></p>
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
diff --git a/_includes/userstories-band.html b/_includes/userstories-band.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<div class="full-width-bg component-slim">
+  <div class="grid-wrapper click-cards">
+    <div class="width-12-12 width-12-12-m">
+    </div>
+
+    {% for post in site.tags.user-story %}
+    {% assign author = site.data.authors[post.author] %}
+      <div class="card">
+        <a href="{{site.baseurl}}{{ post.url }}"></a>
+        <div>
+          {% if post.thumbnailimage %}
+            <img src="{{ post.thumbnailimage }}">
+          {% endif %}          
+          <p class="title">{{ post.title }}</p>
+          <div class="description">
+          {% if post.synopsis %}
+            <p>{{ post.synopsis | strip_html }}</p>
+          {% else %}
+            <p>{{ post.content | strip_html | truncate: 200 }}</p>
+          {% endif %}</div>
+          <div class="metatext">Written by: {% if post.author %} {{ author.name }} {% endif %} </div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    {% endfor %}
+
+  </div>
+</div>
diff --git a/_layouts/userstories.html b/_layouts/userstories.html
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+layout: base
+---
+
+{% include title-band.html %}
+
+{% include userstories-band.html %}
+
diff --git a/_posts/2019-11-06-gowithflow-chooses-quarkus-to-deliver-fast-to-production.adoc b/_posts/2019-11-06-gowithflow-chooses-quarkus-to-deliver-fast-to-production.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: GoWithFlow chooses Quarkus to deliver fast to production with minimal ris
 date: 2019-11-06
 tags: user-story
 author: cesarsaavedra
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/gowithflow/Flow_id.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/gowithflow
 

diff --git a/_posts/2019-11-13-vodafone-greece-replaces-spring-boot.adoc b/_posts/2019-11-13-vodafone-greece-replaces-spring-boot.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: Vodafone Greece replaces Spring Boot with Quarkus
 date: 2019-11-13
 tags: user-story
 author: cesarsaavedra
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/vodafonegreece/New_VF_Logo_Horiz_RGB_RED.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/vodafonegreece
 

diff --git a/_posts/2019-12-11-talkdesk-chooses-quarkus-for-fast-innovation.adoc b/_posts/2019-12-11-talkdesk-chooses-quarkus-for-fast-innovation.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: For fast innovation and to stay ahead of the competition, Talkdesk choose
 date: 2019-12-11 00:00:00.000 -0600
 tags: user-story
 author: cesarsaavedra
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/talkdesk/td_logo_2019_cmyk_darkblue.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/talkdesk
 

diff --git a/_posts/2020-02-10-asiakastieto-chooses-quarkus-for-microservices.adoc b/_posts/2020-02-10-asiakastieto-chooses-quarkus-for-microservices.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: Suomen Asiakastieto Oy chooses Quarkus for their microservices developmen
 date: 2020-02-10
 tags: user-story
 author: cesarsaavedra
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/asiakastieto/Asiakastieto-logo.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/asiakastieto
 

diff --git a/_posts/2020-02-17-aviatar-experiences-significant-savings.adoc b/_posts/2020-02-17-aviatar-experiences-significant-savings.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: Lufthansa Technik AVIATAR experiences significant cloud resources savings
 date: 2020-02-17
 tags: user-story
 author: cesarsaavedra
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/lufthansatechnik/LHT_logo.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/lufthansatechnik
 

diff --git a/_posts/2020-03-16-ennovativesolutions-uses-quarkus-with-aws-lambda.adoc b/_posts/2020-03-16-ennovativesolutions-uses-quarkus-with-aws-lambda.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: Ennovative Solutions uses Quarkus with AWS Lambda to deliver a better cus
 date: 2020-03-14
 tags: user-story
 author: cesarsaavedra
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/ennovativesolutions/ennovativesolutions-purqr.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/ennovativesolutions
 

diff --git a/_posts/2020-04-08-why-did-payair-technologies-switch-to-quarkus.adoc b/_posts/2020-04-08-why-did-payair-technologies-switch-to-quarkus.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: Why did Payair Technologies switch to Quarkus?
 date: 2020-04-08
 tags: user-story
 author: hubertlewandowski
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/payair/payair_logo_rgb.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/payair
 

diff --git a/_posts/2020-04-24-quarkus-summit-2020.adoc b/_posts/2020-04-24-quarkus-summit-2020.adoc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: Free Quarkus Sessions at Red Hat Summit
 date: 2020-04-24
-tags: conference user-story
+tags: conference
 synopsis: A handy guide to Quarkus sessions at Red Hat's free Summit Virtual Experience. 
 author: jclingan
 ---

diff --git a/_posts/2020-05-06-sedona-rewrites-insurance-premium.adoc b/_posts/2020-05-06-sedona-rewrites-insurance-premium.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: Sedona rewrites insurance premium actuarial engine using Quarkus
 date: 2020-05-06
 tags: user-story
 author: cesarsaavedra
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/sedona/sedona-logo.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/sedona
 

diff --git a/_posts/2020-08-25-backports-application.adoc b/_posts/2020-08-25-backports-application.adoc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: From zero to hero on backporting pull requests
 date: 2020-08-25
-tags: user-story
+tags: 
 author: gastaldi
 ---
 = From zero to hero on backporting pull requests

diff --git a/_posts/2020-08-25-quarkus-day-2020.adoc b/_posts/2020-08-25-quarkus-day-2020.adoc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: Free Quarkus Sessions at Quarkus Day by Red Hat
 date: 2020-08-25
-tags: conference user-story event
+tags: conference event
 synopsis: A handy guide to Quarkus sessions at Red Hat's free Quarkus Day virtual event.
 author: jfalkner
 ---

diff --git a/_posts/2020-09-14-wipro-customer-story.adoc b/_posts/2020-09-14-wipro-customer-story.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ date: 2020-09-14
 tags: user-story
 synopsis: Retailers are aggressively adopting cloud technologies to keep up with changing customer needs, seasonal demand, and increased competition. Digital retailers, like Amazon, are disrupting the industry and retailers are looking for ways to remain competitive.
 author: jbeck
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/wipro/Wipro_Digital.png
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/wipro

diff --git a/_posts/2020-09-23-cytech-customer-story.adoc b/_posts/2020-09-23-cytech-customer-story.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ date: 2020-09-23
 tags: user-story
 synopsis: Cytech uses Quarkus to save Greek Tourism
 author: dandreadis
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/cytech/cytechLogoLarge.png
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/cytech

diff --git a/_posts/2021-06-22-abraxas-customer-story.adoc b/_posts/2021-06-22-abraxas-customer-story.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ date: 2021-06-22
 tags: user-story
 synopsis: Abraxas Uses Quarkus For Cutting Edge Tax App
 author: jbeck
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/abraxas/abraxas.png
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/abraxas

diff --git a/_posts/2021-09-13-decathlon-user-story.adoc b/_posts/2021-09-13-decathlon-user-story.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ date: 2021-09-13
 tags: user-story
 synopsis: 'VCStream: a new messaging platform for DECATHLON’s Value Chain, built on Quarkus.'
 author: lmathieu
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/decathlon/vcTech_logo_vcStream_500h.jpg
+
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/decathlon

diff --git a/_posts/2021-09-15-adoptium-customer-story.adoc b/_posts/2021-09-15-adoptium-customer-story.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ date: 2021-09-15
 tags: user-story
 synopsis: Java is used by millions of developers worldwide and is the second most popular language, and they all need a Java runtime. Adoptium, the most popular Java distribution, needed to offer a way for developers to programmatically discover and access pre-built Java binaries across many different variants, and produced an end-user API with Quarkus to improve performance and developer productivity.
 author: jfalkner
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/adoptium/adoptium-logo.png
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/adoptium

diff --git a/_posts/2021-09-20-logicdrop-customer-story.adoc b/_posts/2021-09-20-logicdrop-customer-story.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ date: 2021-09-20
 tags: user-story
 synopsis: "Moving to Quarkus from a large SpringBoot ecosystem seemed overwhelming at first, but in the end, it was a simple straight-forward transition. Quarkus not only made Java development fun again but also drastically improved the developer experience and Logicdrop's ability to deliver features faster."
 author: kjq
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/logicdrop/logicdrop.png
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/logicdrop

diff --git a/_posts/2021-12-02-logicdrop-automating-quarkus-with-gitlab.adoc b/_posts/2021-12-02-logicdrop-automating-quarkus-with-gitlab.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ date: 2021-12-02
 tags: user-story development-tips gitlab
 synopsis: "Using Quarkus greatly improved our developers productivity and our CI/CD process needed to be redesigned to catch up. In doing so, we wanted a more universal experience and leveraging Quarkus extensions was a perfect fit. Every step of our Quarkus pipelines, from inception, to development through deployment, and finally monitoring, are now orchestrated through GitLab."
 author: kjq
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/logicdrop/logicdrop.png
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/logicdrop

diff --git a/_posts/2022-05-31-banco-do-brasil-open-banking-user-story.adoc b/_posts/2022-05-31-banco-do-brasil-open-banking-user-story.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ date: 2022-05-31
 tags: user-story kafka
 synopsis: Banco do Brasil extracts investment data from the Brazilian Open Banking environment using Quarkus and Kafka to scale horizontally the processing with multiple instances and simultaneous worker threads.
 author: felipewind
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/bancodobrasil/banco-do-brasil.png
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/bancodobrasil

diff --git a/_posts/2022-09-13-aphp-user-story.adoc b/_posts/2022-09-13-aphp-user-story.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ date: 2022-09-13
 tags: user-story
 synopsis: 'A short story of Quarkus adoption by APHP (Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris).'
 author: jyterrien
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/aphp/aphp-logo-blue.png
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/aphp

diff --git a/_posts/2023-02-09-datacater-uses-quarkus-to-make-data-streaming-accessible.adoc b/_posts/2023-02-09-datacater-uses-quarkus-to-make-data-streaming-accessible.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ date: 2023-02-09
 tags: user-story
 synopsis: DataCater provides a developer-friendly ETL platform. Learn why it chose Quarkus for its recent rewrite.
 author: ssprenger
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/datacater/datacater_logo.png
 ---
 
 = DataCater uses Quarkus to make Data Streaming more accessible

diff --git a/_posts/2023-05-09-ministry-of-economy-finance-uruguay-adopts-quarkus.adoc b/_posts/2023-05-09-ministry-of-economy-finance-uruguay-adopts-quarkus.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: MEF and Sofis use Quarkus as core component of a new innovative architect
 date: 2023-05-09
 tags: user-story
 author: fgregorio
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/ministry-of-economy-finance-uruguay-adopts-quarkus/mef.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/ministry-of-economy-finance-uruguay-adopts-quarkus
 

diff --git a/_posts/2024-04-18-quarkus-saas-backend-time-tracking-app-case-study.adoc b/_posts/2024-04-18-quarkus-saas-backend-time-tracking-app-case-study.adoc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: "Revolutionizing time tracking: how Quarkus transformed our backend devel
 date: 2024-04-18
 tags: user-story
 author: dodalovicgran
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/gran/gran-logo.png
 ---
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/gran
 

diff --git a/_posts/2024-04-22-ship-cars-leverages-quarkus-to-reach-its-goals.adoc b/_posts/2024-04-22-ship-cars-leverages-quarkus-to-reach-its-goals.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ date: 2024-04-22
 tags: user-story
 synopsis: 'Ship.Cars utilizes the Quarkus framework to increase efficiency and reduce costs in their auto transport logistics, despite initial challenges, the result is improved productivity and future scalability.'
 author: iyanev
+thumbnailimage: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/shipcars/sc_logo.png
+
 ---
 
 :imagesdir: /assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/shipcars

diff --git a/_sass/colormode.scss b/_sass/colormode.scss
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ html.dark {
    .giscus {
    		background-color: var(--img-background-color) !important; }
 
+   // Cards - backup for no alt image //
+	.click-cards .card img {
+    	background-color: var(--img-background-color) !important;
+    	padding: 1rem;
+    	margin-bottom: 1rem; }
+
    // Post and Guides - backup for no alt image //
 	.post .doc-content img {
     	background-color: var(--img-background-color) !important;

diff --git a/_sass/includes/whitecards.scss b/_sass/includes/whitecards.scss
@@ -119,6 +119,14 @@ grid-column: span 3;
         line-height: 1.1rem;
         }
 
+      img {
+        display: block;
+        margin-left: auto;
+        margin-right: auto;
+        width: 90%;
+        padding: 1rem 0 2rem 0;
+        }
+
       span.highlighted {
         font-weight: bold;
         font-style: italic;

diff --git a/assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/bancodobrasil/banco-do-brasil.png b/assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/bancodobrasil/banco-do-brasil.png
diff --git a/assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/datacater/datacater_logo.png b/assets/images/posts/quarkus-user-stories/datacater/datacater_logo.png
diff --git a/userstories.md b/userstories.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+layout: userstories
+title: User Stories
+subtitle:  Hear from developers about their successes and challenges when using Quarkus in real-world applications to meet business requirements.
+permalink: /userstories/
+---