The open source Quarkus project made its debut in 2019. Quarkus is a Kubernetes-native Java stack with that can compile to native machine language or building to HotSpot (OpenJDK). When using Quarkus, your application consumes very little memory, has great performance that allows it to handle a high throughput of invocations, and has a very fast start up time (that is, boot plus first response time), making Quarkus a great runtime for containers, as well as cloud-native and serverless deployments. Quarkus also provides an extension framework that allows the quarking of libraries and projects to make them work seamlessly with Quarkus.

Quarkus's mission is to transform your full application and the libraries it uses into an optimal output for GraalVM. To do this, you need to analyze and understand the full closed world of the application. Without the full and complete...