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Advantages of Microservices Architecture  Software development is always changing and, today, we see a clear shift to the use of a microservices architecture.  There are a number of clear...

As Java turned 25 in May 2020, it was going through changes which had nothing to do with the pandemic but everything to do with Oracle. Until 2019, Oracle allowed... The post How to Choose the...

February 12th, 1996.  This is a significant date for me personally since it was the day I started work at Sun Microsystems as a Solaris Systems Engineer...

Java is a well-maintained development and deployment platform. Through the OpenJDK project, regular updates to production releases follow a traditionally established schedule.

Keeping your computer safe from malicious software is no easy task.  There are different approaches to solving this problem, many of which take the antivirus approach of scanning a machine... The...

Well, another six months have passed, and we have another release of Java, this one pretty packed with exciting new features.  It is, therefore, time for another blog post trying... The post...

London-based Vitruvian Partners and New York-based Lead Edge Capital are making a majority investment in Azul.

Today we are announcing the general availability of Zulu Mission Control (ZMC) release 7.1. ZMC is Azul’s build of the open source JDK Mission Control product that is used for... The post Zulu...

Updating Java has changed. In January 2019, the last public updates (for commercial users) of both Oracle JDK 8 and the Oracle OpenJDK JDK 11 were released. Non-commercial users, for... The post...

Happy New Year! As we enter the new decade, I decided it was time to write my now annual blog post giving my thoughts on what this year might hold... The post Staring Into My Java Crystal Ball...

It’s now over two years since the release of JDK 9 and, with it, the switch to a time-based rather than feature-based release schedule. It seems incredible that it took... The post OpenJDK: More...

There is a simple reality in computing, which is that accessing data from memory is significantly faster than from disk. It’s just physics. Hard disk drives spin and use... The post Igniting...

It’s now been a little over two years since Oracle announced it was making some significant changes to the way the Java platform is developed, distributed and updated. This was... The post Tall,...

I recently noticed that Applets are now, to use a Monty Python analogy, the Norwegian Blue of client-side development. If you go all the way back to when Java was... The post No Longer the Applet...

We are now well into the new six-month release cadence of the JDK and, with the release of JDK 13, it is clearly working successfully. One thing that is obvious,... The post 81 New Features and...

The Azul Zing Virtual Machine (ZVM) has been developed to address the performance-related issues that result from a managed runtime environment that is provided by the JVM. These fall into two..

Keeping Java production systems secure and up-to-date can be an operational challenge. There’s always a balance between disrupting operations and reducing the risk of vulnerabilities. No time is...

For those of you old enough to remember the film, Marathon Man, there’s a famous scene with the quote, “Is it safe?” Azul has just ensured that the answer to... The post Keeping Network Traffic...