diff --git a/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/pom.xml b/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/pom.xml
index e6298136..9dae1152 100644
--- a/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/pom.xml
+++ b/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/pom.xml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <groupId>com.httparena</groupId>
@@ -39,17 +40,17 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.xerial</groupId>
             <artifactId>sqlite-jdbc</artifactId>
-            <version>3.47.2.0</version>
+            <version>3.51.3.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
             <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
-            <version>42.7.4</version>
+            <version>42.7.10</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
             <artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
-            <version>6.2.1</version>
+            <version>7.0.2</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
@@ -70,4 +71,5 @@
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
+
 </project>
diff --git a/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/java/com/httparena/BenchmarkResource.java b/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/java/com/httparena/BenchmarkResource.java
index 813e3671..41cc2087 100644
--- a/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/java/com/httparena/BenchmarkResource.java
+++ b/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/java/com/httparena/BenchmarkResource.java
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import io.smallrye.common.annotation.NonBlocking;
-import io.vertx.core.buffer.Buffer;
 import jakarta.annotation.PostConstruct;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.*;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
@@ -14,21 +13,17 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.net.URI;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.sql.Connection;
 import java.sql.DriverManager;
 import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
 import java.sql.ResultSet;
 import java.util.*;
-import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 
 @Path("/")
 public class BenchmarkResource {
 
-    private static final Buffer OK_BUFFER = Buffer.buffer("ok".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
-
     private final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
     private List<Map<String, Object>> dataset;
     private byte[] largeJsonResponse;
@@ -38,16 +33,6 @@ public class BenchmarkResource {
     private static final ThreadLocal<Connection> tlConn = new ThreadLocal<>();
     private static final ThreadLocal<PreparedStatement> tlStmt = new ThreadLocal<>();
     private HikariDataSource pgPool;
-    private final Map<String, byte[]> staticFiles = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
-    private static final Map<String, String> MIME_TYPES = Map.ofEntries(
-        Map.entry(".css", "text/css"),
-        Map.entry(".js", "application/javascript"),
-        Map.entry(".html", "text/html"),
-        Map.entry(".woff2", "font/woff2"),
-        Map.entry(".svg", "image/svg+xml"),
-        Map.entry(".webp", "image/webp"),
-        Map.entry(".json", "application/json")
-    );
 
     @PostConstruct
     public void init() throws IOException {
@@ -98,36 +83,22 @@ public void init() throws IOException {
                 pgPool = new HikariDataSource(config);
             } catch (Exception ignored) {}
         }
-        // Pre-load static files
-        File staticDir = new File("/data/static");
-        if (staticDir.isDirectory()) {
-            File[] files = staticDir.listFiles();
-            if (files != null) {
-                for (File sf : files) {
-                    if (sf.isFile()) {
-                        try {
-                            staticFiles.put(sf.getName(), Files.readAllBytes(sf.toPath()));
-                        } catch (IOException ignored) {}
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
     }
 
     @GET
     @Path("/pipeline")
     @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
     @NonBlocking
-    public Buffer pipeline() {
-        return OK_BUFFER;
+    public String pipeline() {
+        return "ok";
     }
 
     @GET
     @Path("/baseline11")
     @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
     @NonBlocking
-    public String baselineGet(@QueryParam("a") String a, @QueryParam("b") String b) {
-        return String.valueOf(sumParams(a, b));
+    public int baselineGet(@QueryParam("a") int a, @QueryParam("b") int b) {
+        return a + b;
     }
 
     @POST
@@ -135,33 +106,24 @@ public String baselineGet(@QueryParam("a") String a, @QueryParam("b") String b)
     @Consumes(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
     @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
     @NonBlocking
-    public String baselinePost(@QueryParam("a") String a, @QueryParam("b") String b, String body) {
-        int sum = sumParams(a, b);
-        try {
-            sum += Integer.parseInt(body.trim());
-        } catch (NumberFormatException ignored) {}
-        return String.valueOf(sum);
+    public int baselinePost(@QueryParam("a") int a, @QueryParam("b") int b, int body) {
+        return a + b + body;
     }
 
     @POST
     @Path("/upload")
+    @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM)
     @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
-    public String upload(InputStream body) throws IOException {
-        byte[] buf = new byte[65536];
-        long total = 0;
-        int n;
-        while ((n = body.read(buf)) != -1) {
-            total += n;
-        }
-        return String.valueOf(total);
+    public long upload(InputStream body) throws IOException {
+        return body.transferTo(OutputStream.nullOutputStream());
     }
 
     @GET
     @Path("/baseline2")
     @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
     @NonBlocking
-    public String baseline2(@QueryParam("a") String a, @QueryParam("b") String b) {
-        return String.valueOf(sumParams(a, b));
+    public int baseline2(@QueryParam("a") int a, @QueryParam("b") int b) {
+        return a + b;
     }
 
     @GET
@@ -268,20 +230,6 @@ public byte[] compression() {
         return largeJsonResponse;
     }
 
-    @GET
-    @Path("/static/{filename}")
-    @NonBlocking
-    public jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response staticFile(@PathParam("filename") String filename) {
-        byte[] data = staticFiles.get(filename);
-        if (data == null) {
-            return jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response.status(404).build();
-        }
-        int dot = filename.lastIndexOf('.');
-        String ext = dot >= 0 ? filename.substring(dot) : "";
-        String ct = MIME_TYPES.getOrDefault(ext, "application/octet-stream");
-        return jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response.ok(data).header("Content-Type", ct).build();
-    }
-
     private PreparedStatement getDbStmt() {
         PreparedStatement stmt = tlStmt.get();
         if (stmt != null) return stmt;
@@ -297,10 +245,4 @@ private PreparedStatement getDbStmt() {
         return stmt;
     }
 
-    private int sumParams(String a, String b) {
-        int sum = 0;
-        if (a != null) try { sum += Integer.parseInt(a); } catch (NumberFormatException ignored) {}
-        if (b != null) try { sum += Integer.parseInt(b); } catch (NumberFormatException ignored) {}
-        return sum;
-    }
 }
diff --git a/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/java/com/httparena/StaticFiles.java b/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/java/com/httparena/StaticFiles.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..46ee9dcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/java/com/httparena/StaticFiles.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package com.httparena;
+
+import io.vertx.ext.web.Router;
+import io.vertx.ext.web.handler.FileSystemAccess;
+import io.vertx.ext.web.handler.StaticHandler;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.event.Observes;
+
+/**
+ * Serves the static resources in /data/static
+ * Recommended way to do in production workloads (besides using a nginx sidecar).
+ */
+@ApplicationScoped
+public class StaticFiles {
+
+    void init(@Observes Router router) {
+        var handler = StaticHandler.create(FileSystemAccess.ROOT, "/data/static");
+
+        router.route("/static/*")
+              .handler(handler);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/resources/application.properties b/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 81e9eaf2..cc32d6b6 100644
--- a/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/frameworks/quarkus-jvm/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ quarkus.http.ssl.client-auth=none
 # Allow 25MB request bodies for upload test
 quarkus.http.limits.max-body-size=25M
 
+# Compression
+quarkus.http.enable-compression=true
+
 # TechEmpower-style tuning
 quarkus.http.accept-backlog=-1
-quarkus.http.idle-timeout=0
+quarkus.http.idle-timeout=30s
 quarkus.vertx.prefer-native-transport=true
-quarkus.http.enable-compression=true
 quarkus.http.compression-level=1