Sub-10ms Startup: Quarkus vs. Spring Native – The Race to Instant Java

In today’s cloud-native world, startup time is the new throughput. Serverless computing, Kubernetes scaling, and edge deployments demand applications that launch in milliseconds, not seconds. Traditional Java frameworks, built around the JVM’s just-in-time (JIT) compilation, struggle with this paradigm. Enter Quarkus and Spring Native—two frameworks pushing Java into the sub-10ms startup territory using GraalVM native compilation. But which one delivers on …