Launched nearly two years ago, the Eclipse MicroProfile project is moving fast with four releases and eight subspecs having at least two implementations each. Because it’s a fast moving target, this post tries to give an overview of MicroProfile 1.3, which was released on September 30th, and helps you to get started with the specification. What Is MicroProfile ? Before you started reading this post, you probably had an idea of what MicroProfile is. But to make things clearer, I’ll quote the microprofile.io website definition below: