# CyberJUG-HH: Why is everybody talking about Quarkus?

In this (Why is everybody talking about Quarkus?) 
Java User Group Hamburg (CyberJUG-HH) session I highlighted possible reasons for Quarkus' popularity, 
explained Quarkus' optimisation tricks, 
the differences between Jakarta EE / J2EE / Java EE application servers and Quarkus, 
discussed the role of MicroProfile and Jakarta EE, 
migrated a Java EE application to Quarkus, performed multiple deployments, decompiled some code,
measured memory consumption and finally cross compiled the Java service to native code using GraalVM: