The increasing number of Internet users and the arrival of cloud computing led to cloud-native applications. Oracle’s project GraalVM brought many new features. Among other things, it enables compiling Java applications into machine code ahead of time. This drastically improves the start-up time and it helps to reduce the memory usage of an application. Both of which is very important for cloud-native applications and therefore the first framework for building cloud-native applications in native mode named Quarkus was proposed. In the thesis we study the GraalVM and the Quarkus framework and compare it to other frameworks. We use Quarkus to build the sample cloud-native application, which represents a back-end of an online store. We deploy it on the Kubernetes and compare its performance to two same applications running on the JVM. We find out that the native application performs better than the other two. The start-up time is much lower and it is also more efficient.
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