Quarkus Through Fresh Eyes

**Quarkus Through Fresh Eyes: A Jakarta EE Veterans First Months with Quarkus**

**Details**
After 15 years working on WildFly and leading Jakarta REST and RESTEasy, James joined the Quarkus team this summer, and is still learning. Much of what he knew carried over: Quarkus builds on Jakarta EE specifications. What changed is everything around them.

We'll live-code an application from scratch: dev mode and live reload, the Dev UI, a database with zero configuration thanks to Dev Services, and continuous testing. Along the way we'll look at what Quarkus does differently, mainly moving work from startup to build time, and what that means for startup time and memory on the JVM and as a native executable.

Using Spring? You're very welcome too. Quarkus has Spring compatibility APIs, and James would love to hear how this looks from your side. We'll also point to publicly available benchmarks you can reproduce yourself. Bring your questions.

**Speaker:**
James Perkins is a Software Engineer at IBM and a longtime open-source contributor. James leads the RESTEasy project and Jakarta REST. He is now part of the Quarkus team.