Ana introduces Quarkus, an open source framework for building microservices. She highlights some key metrics that Quarkus can track like throughput, queue time, and error rates. Quarkus offers features like live reloading, support for reactive and imperative programming models, and early detection of dependency injection errors. Ana encourages attendees to see Quarkus in action and shares takeaways on getting more insights from metrics and annotating methods to monitor performance.