This summary was generated using AI, reviewed by humans - watch the video for the full story. Quarkus Insights #252: Performance Engineering Lessons from the Trenches Episode 252 of Quarkus Insights featured Francesco Nigro, a performance engineer on the Red Hat App Services performance team, who shared a concentrated set of lessons drawn from years of low-level profiling and benchmarking work — most recently in the context of the Quarkus vs Spring Boot performance benchmark . Performance as a Currency Francesco opened with a framing device borrowed from economics: performance as currency.