Five (and a half) Cool Things You Can Do With Quarkus
summary
Quarkus shows concrete wins: microbenchmark with Hyperfoil yields 9,000 req/s vs 3,800 req/s on the same laptop and lab runs report ~4–5x advantage, container sizing translates to $3.87 vs $30/mo for equivalent capacity, and measured power is roughly 57W vs 93W. Demos use GraalVM/Mandrel native binaries and picocli, embed WASM via Chickadee/Chickory for Rust live‑reloading, run Spring apps with Quarkus shims, and hook observability into Minecraft.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Quarkus and climate impact
- 7:43Quarkus vs Spring performance
- 19:56Native compilation speed
- 25:43Quarkus and WebAssembly
- 32:53Polyglot with Quarkus
- 37:30Migrating Spring to Quarkus
- 39:01Minecraft observability fun
- 41:14Summary
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