Quarkus

My first website was an adventure straight out of 2014, built with Dreamweaver and some basic HTML and CSS. Picture a static site, lovingly crafted to display the research and papers from our lab. The end product was, well, let’s just say not exactly internet-breaking. But hey, it was my first foray into the wild world of web development! Fast forward 10 years, after diving deep into data science, machine learning, and platform engineering, I realized something horrifying: I was still a web development noob....

What is Quarkus Quarkus is a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that was developed by Red Hat. It first appeared in early 2019, aimed at optimizing Java specifically for containers and enabling it to become an effective platform in serverless environments. The motivation behind Quarkus was to breathe new life into the Java ecosystem for modern cloud-native applications. It seeks to overcome the traditional shortcomings of Java, like slow startup time and high memory consumption, which are particularly notable in containerized environments....