A Quarkus Introduction for Spring Developers

Dear OpenShift & Cloud native community,

We are pleased to share with you a great event on Quarkus!

The event is organized by JUG Geneva and will take place on sept 5th at HEPIA - room B119

The speaker will be Hans-Peter Grahsl Developer Advocate at Red Hat

Please register on the eventbrite page

More infos

It's 2023, and many developers out there have certainly heard about Quarkus, which is a very competitive contender in the space of server-side Java development frameworks. However, companies are somewhat hesitant to look deeper into it. On the one hand, there are a few misconceptions about Quarkus out there and on the other hand, developers are somewhat afraid that they need to (re-)learn everything from scratch to make use of Quarkus.

This session starts by giving a very brief overview of Quarkus and then focuses on discussing how certain concepts and conventions familiar to Spring developers map to Quarkus. Additionally, we cover selected parts of the Spring APIs compatibility layer and why it can be helpful to either quickly get going with Quarkus or transition existing Spring (Boot)-based workloads to Quarkus.

Using an exemplary application, we are exploring how the Spring and Quarkus versions stack up against each other regarding aspects such as artefact size, startup time, or memory consumption for both, the "standard" JVM mode and GraalVM's native image mode.

This session given by Hans-Peter Grahsl will be in English.

Hans-Peter Grahsl is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat. He is an open-source community enthusiast and in particular passionate about event-driven architectures, distributed stream processing systems and data engineering. For his code contributions, conference talks and blog post writing at the intersection of the Apache Kafka and MongoDB communities, Hans-Peter received the Confluent Community Catalyst award 4 times in a row and became one of the founding members of the MongoDB Champions Program. He is a regular speaker at international tech-related and developer conferences for several years.