Green Java with Quarkus: Performance Benchmarks, SBOM, and Serverless Architecture

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on Quarkus's performance and energy efficiency compared to Spring Boot, along with various technical optimizations and serverless architecture insights.

An airhacks.fm conversation with Holly Cummins ( @holly_cummins ) about: discussion about Quarkus energy efficiency and performance benchmarks, comparing Quarkus throughput and energy consumption to Spring Boot, the Quarkus Benchmarks repository and Spring-Quarkus performance comparison repository on GitHub, three times throughput and half the energy consumption with Quarkus, Quarkus build-time optimization and tree shaking , monomorphic vs megamorphic dispatching in the JVM, removing reflection at build time, the reactive core built on Vert.x enabling blocking APIs with reactive scalability, Quarkus dev experience and fast reload, build duration comparison between Quarkus and Spring Boot, the Writing Greener Java Applications white paper, the Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages study, Java ranking among the most energy-efficient languages, carbon-aware dispatching and Electricity Maps , zombie deployments and kubernetes cluster waste, serverless architecture with Quarkus on AWS Lambda , SnapStart for sub-second cold starts, Provisioned Concurrency cost savings, GraalVM native binaries vs JVM mode in serverless environments, CycloneDX SBOM generation in Quarkus…

People in this episode

Host: Adam Bien

Guest: Holly Cummins

Topics covered

• Quarkus
• performance benchmarks
• energy efficiency
• serverless architecture
• Java applications
• JVM tuning

Keywords

• Quarkus
• Spring Boot
• performance benchmarks
• energy efficiency
• serverless architecture
• JVM tuning
• AWS Lambda
• GraalVM
• CycloneDX
• Kruize

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Quarkus, Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, GraalVM, Kruize, Vert.x, CycloneDX, JVM

Books & works: Writing Greener Java Applications, Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages

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