What is Quarkus?
What we mean by "Supersonic Subatomic Java".
Developer Joy
Developers are critical to the success of almost every organization and they need the tools to build cloud-native applications quickly and efficiently. Quarkus provides a frictionless development experience through a combination of tools, libraries, extensions, and more. Quarkus makes developers more efficient with tools to improve the inner loop development cycle while in dev mode.
Kubernetes-native
Quarkus was built from the ground up for Kubernetes making it easy to deploy applications without having to understand all of the complexities of the platform. Quarkus allows developers to automatically generate Kubernetes resources including building and deploying container images without having to manually create YAML files.
Best of Breed Libraries and Standards
Quarkus provides a cohesive, fun to use, full-stack framework by leveraging a growing list of hundreds of best-of-breed libraries that you love and use. All wired on a standard backbone.
Imperative and reactive code
Quarkus is designed to seamlessly combine the familiar imperative style code and the non-blocking, reactive style when developing applications.
This is helpful for both Java developers who are used to working with the imperative model and don’t want to switch things up, and those working with a cloud-native/reactive approach. The Quarkus development model can adapt itself to whatever app you’re developing.
The inspiration behind Quarkus...
For more about the why, how and what of Quarkus, check out the Devoxx Belgium presentation where Quarkus 1.0 was released in November 2019.
