Posts by Francesco Nigro
Posts by Francesco Nigro
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat (now IBM!) working on Quarkus performance.
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July 21, 2026
We found our benchmark was measuring Spring's warmup, not its peak. We changed it. Spring's numbers went up. Quarkus's didn't. That's what fairness looks like.
June 10, 2026
Throughput averages hide warmup problems. On 4 cores with 100 connections, C2 compiler threads are starved by platform threads. pidstat and JFR show how.
June 08, 2026
Our perf-lab shows Quarkus 2x faster than Spring, but a community member only sees 1.19x locally. The culprit: a userspace TCP proxy hidden inside rootless podman.