about this book
Quarkus in Action is intended to teach readers how to use Quarkus, a modern cloud-native Java stack that puts a lot of emphasis on developer productivity and ease of use. While Quarkus has a vibrant community and lots of resources available online and this book doesn’t claim it will teach you all aspects of Quarkus, it attempts to provide a concise learning path to demonstrate the key features of Quarkus to get you started. After reading the book, a reader should be well-equipped to become part of the Quarkus community, start exploring more and more extensions in the Quarkus ecosystem that might be useful for their programming projects, contribute to existing Quarkus extensions, or even extend the ecosystem by starting their own extension and making it available to others.
Who should read this book
Quarkus in Action is chiefly for Java developers who want to learn about the latest and greatest in modern Java. General knowledge of programming in Java is assumed. However, developers who aren’t active Java users might find it interesting, too, because it debunks a lot of myths about Java being slow, cumbersome, and inefficient.
How this book is organized: A road map
The book has three parts that cover 12 chapters. Part 1 introduces the basics of Quarkus and why you should care about it: