Quarkus Native on Knative cold start benchmark

Quarkus Native on Knative: 5x Faster Cold Start, 20x Less Memory

What does a 3-second cold start cost you in production? SLO breaches on every scale-from-zero event and 19x more cloud spend on memory. I benchmarked a real Quarkus app in containers and the numbers make the case.

May 3, 2026 · 8 min · Matheus Oliveira