First Steps in Quarkus

Tired of slow startup times and high memory usage in your Java applications? Discover how Quarkus revolutionizes Java development for the cloud-native era, enabling you to build incredibly efficient and performant services. This course guides you through creating a complete, high-performance RESTful application with Quarkus. You'll progress from a simple idea to a production-ready, containerized service, mastering the core concepts that make Quarkus uniquely powerful. You will learn to write clean, maintainable code that is optimized for both developer productivity and runtime efficiency. What you'll learn: - Understand the fundamentals of Quarkus and its cloud-native architecture. - Build RESTful APIs using JAX-RS and handle asynchronous operations with reactive principles. - Connect to a database and manage data persistence effortlessly with Panache. - Practice writing unit and integration tests for your application using JUnit and RESTAssured. - Configure your application for different environments using MicroProfile Config. - Compile your Java code into a lightning-fast native executable with GraalVM. - Package your application as a lightweight container image using Docker for deployment. The course begins with the essential theory and terminology behind Quarkus, then moves into practical, step-by-step written exercises to build and package your first application. This course is designed for Java developers who are new to Quarkus. No prior experience with Quarkus or cloud-native frameworks is required, just a basic understanding of Java. Start building your next generation of Java applications today.