Quarkus makes both people and hardware more efficient. That’s cool, but how does it work? Usually, we expect to trade-off developer experience against runtime efficiency. In this session, Holly will dive into some of the technical underpinnings of Quarkus’s efficiency. She’ll give advice for those using or considering Quarkus - should you be doing reactive programming? Do native binaries run fastest? The talk includes some theory (what underpins Quarkus’s surprising throughput?) and also live demos (does Quarkus really start faster than a light bulb? What does an integration testing flow with Quarkus look like?)