(This post was originally published on www.pzuraq.com ) If you’ve been paying attention in Ember lately you may have heard the term “Octane” floating around here and there recently, and wondered what all the excitement was about. It may seem like a bit of a big deal - and that’s because it kind of is! It’s Ember’s first new edition , proposed in the Ember 2018 Roadmap , and represents a major shift in the mental model behind Ember.js and Ember applications.