Faster, Greener, and Happier: Why Quarkus Should Be Your Next Tech Stack

Discover why Quarkus should be your next tech stack in this conference talk by Holly Cummins, Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus Team. Explore the renaissance of Java and how Quarkus is revolutionizing cloud-native development. Learn about native binaries, Quarkus's impressive speed on the JVM, Test-Driven Development (TDD) with Quarkus, and its carbon footprint. Witness live demonstrations showcasing Quarkus's rapid startup time and integration testing workflow. Gain insights into advanced features, memory footprint optimization, response time improvements, and performance enhancements. Understand the framework's dynamism, continuous testing capabilities, and its position relative to Spring. Conclude with a summary of key takeaways and discover why Quarkus is faster, greener, and leads to happier development experiences.

Intro
History
Java
Quarkus
Demo
Faster than a lightbulb?
Memory footprint
Response time
Dynamism
Performance
Demo
Continuous testing
Examples
What about Spring?
One last thing
tl; dpa
Outro