This morning we announced our first Java Hero Awards for 17 organizations, teams, and individual champions globally who have achieved innovative world-class results with Java to help their businesses become more successful, efficient, and cost-effective.
I’m inspired to see the remarkable ways in which companies around the world use Java. The winners of our inaugural Azul Java Hero Awards embody the best of what can be achieved with Java, showcasing its enduring power and versatility in enterprise software. Their achievements highlight why Java remains the go-to language and platform for businesses striving for excellence and efficiency.
A group of exceptional companies
Nominations for the Azul Java Hero Awards were submitted from all regions and industries and included companies of all sizes. The 17 companies being honored today were selected based on their exceptional Java use cases in areas such as Oracle Java migration, cloud cost optimization, application performance, industry-specific use cases, and innovation.
Highlights from our Java Hero Awards include:
Workday reduced its weekly application pause time from 20,000 seconds (more than 5.5 hours) per JVM to just 14 seconds. Workday improved its operational efficiency in managing its Java runtime by over 95%, eliminating time wasted on performance tuning and troubleshooting, and freeing developers to build more features for their customers. For these accomplishments, Workday earned the Application Performance — Operations & Efficiency award.
As the local government authority providing services to over 300,000 residents of Newcastle in northeast England, Newcastle City Council (NCC) is committed to maintaining the highest security standards through annual audits. When these audits highlighted Java-related vulnerabilities due to unsupported versions of Oracle Java, they chose Azul Platform Core as the solution. With Azul Platform Core, NCC received Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) for Java 6, 7, and 8 that allowed IT to immediately deploy security fixes in production without disrupting their essential Java-based line of business systems. We awarded Newcastle City Council with Best Industry Use Case – Public Sector.
LMAX Group is a global financial technology company and the leading independent operator of multiple institutional execution venues for FX and digital asset trading. Leveraging the performance, scale, and runtime consistency of Azul Platform Prime, LMAX Group processes sustained volumes of over 100,000 orders per second, capable of bursting to almost a million orders per second per exchange at peak. LMAX Group and Azul have forged a strong engineering partnership and collaborate on performance optimizations, code improvements, and test suites. This cooperation has greatly contributed to the enhancement of LMAX Group’s leading low-latency trade execution capabilities and has enabled the team to focus on innovation to scale rapid growth. LMAX Group earned the Application Performance – Speeds & Feeds award.
The full list of Java Hero award categories include:
- Oracle Java Migration — Java Migration Execution
- Oracle Java Migration — Java Migration Speed
- Cloud Cost Optimization — Cloud & Infrastructure Cost Savings
- Application Performance — Operations & Efficiency
- Application Performance — Customer Experience
- Application Performance — Speeds & Feeds
- Best Industry Use Case — Trading Exchange
- Best Industry Use Case — Energy
- Best Industry Use Case — Risk & Fraud
- Best Industry Use Case — Gaming
- Best Industry Use Case — Public Sector
- Best Industry Use Case — Higher Education
- Best Industry Use Case — Retail
- Best Industry Use Case — AdTech
- Java Innovation Team
- Java Hero of the Year
- Java Migration Trailblazer
We provide our customers with the world’s best JDKs, and they leverage those to create amazing business results. We couldn’t be prouder of their accomplishments.
Learn more about the winners of the first Java Hero Awards on our website, our customer pages, and our press release.
