Quarkus in 2026: A Practical Roadmap for Java Devs
If you know Spring, most of Quarkus will make sense immediately. The annotations are different, the startup is faster, and some things work in ways Spring never did.
This video is a practical Quarkus roadmap for Java developers who already understand enterprise frameworks and want to know where Quarkus actually fits. Not as a “Spring killer,” but as another tool for production-oriented Java development with a different set of trade-offs.
We start with the basics: CDI, dependency injection, Jakarta EE annotations, and REST endpoints. Then we move into the parts that make Quarkus feel different in daily work: Dev Mode, live reload, automatic test reruns when classes change, developer UI, and MCP support.
Data access comes next: Panache over Hibernate, with Active Record and repository-style development side by side, and jOOQ as an escape hatch for complex SQL. Then build-time profiles, Dev Services with Docker Compose, Mutiny’s Uni/Multi reactive model, and Native Image — which was a design goal from day one, not a retrofit.
Useful if you want to understand Quarkus without turning it into another framework war.
00:00 — Quarkus is not a Spring killer
01:12 — IoC / DI — Dependency injection with Jakarta EE
01:57 — Web — REST with @Path, @GET… + Dev Mode
04:36 — Persistence — Panache, Active Record, Repository, jOOQ
07:02 — Configuration — Build-time config & profiles
07:57 — Tests — Unit, Integration tests & Dev Services
09:19 — Mutiny — Reactive with Uni T, Multi T
10:21 — Native Image — Built for native from day one
11:05 — Will I replace Spring?
PDF mind map: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K16o...