Exploring Quarkus

Quarkus is an open source Java framework that aims to be optimized for cloud-native and microservices. It was born in the container and Kubernetes world, and for this reason, it's been optimized by design for container and Kubernetes-based cloud-native applications.

Quarkus comes from an engineering team with experience in many interesting projects, such as Hibernate, Vert.X, and RESTEasy, and so reuses a lot of good ideas and best practices from these famous communities.

This is what a Quarkus application looks like when started from a terminal console:

Figure 7.3 – Quarkus starting

As you can see, some spectacular ASCII art is shown and some interesting information, including the lightning-fast startup time of fewer than 1.5 seconds.

But what are the most important benefits of Quarkus?

Better performances

One of the most famous benefits of Quarkus is its optimization. The framework was created with a container...