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As Java turns 30, Azul CTO and co-founder Gil Tene, reflects on its journey in this article from Daryl K. Taft at The New Stack. “We have the largest engineering team in Java,” Tene said. “We have probably the biggest commercial offering other than Oracle in the Java space as well.” With much more room to grow, the article also captures our impact in Java’s evolution, like breaking JVM performance barriers with our Optimizer Hub, and spotlights additional innovations such as Azul’s JVM inventory, Falcon JIT compiler, Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC). Java and Azul’s evolution tells the story of modern computing itself. While we built hardware solutions for data centers early on, we followed the industry shift to cloud and software. “We shifted away from, pivoted away from hardware in the late 2000s as commodity hardware became good enough, and as hypervisors, virtualizers and eventually cloud took over,” Tene explains in the article as Azul later transformed into what he calls “a pure software company” about 15 years ago. Serving customers across every industry vertical globally and focusing on making Java run faster and more efficiently, we are proud to continue delivering impact and driving innovation in the Java industry. Read it here https://bit.ly/4jSHoxY #Java #30YearsOfJava #CloudCosts #AzulOptimizerHub #OraclaJava #JVM #DevOps

It only takes one incident to wish you had paid commercial Java support. Running unsupported Java in production might seem like a cost-saving decision—until it isn’t. From surprise security vulnerabilities to compliance gaps and legal exposure, the hidden costs can stack up fast. Read this blog post to learn more, and swipe right on the need-to-knows about unsupported Java. https://bit.ly/3ZoffHK #Java #OpenJDK #Cybersecurity #AzulPlatformCore #OpenJDKMigration

Java's Repository pattern, combined with asynchronous programming, can improve performance and maintainability when accessing multiple data sources. By Azul's Simon Ritter

Want to connect with us? Check out our list of events for June! For registration details, on-demand recaps, or information about our events, visit the link or stay tuned as the event gets closer. 📍 FinOpsX, San Diego, CA June 2-5 https://bit.ly/45m3c1m 📍 GBI CIO Evening Gathering, Washington D.C. June 3 https://bit.ly/45niByy 📍 AWS Summit Sydney, Australia June 4-5 https://go.aws/444YyCD 📍 Elevate IT Dallas, Texas June 5 https://bit.ly/3Hzj07b 📍 ProcureCon Connect, San Diego, CA June 9-10 https://bit.ly/43Gj9OB 📍 SAMS Nordics, Stockholm June 11-13 https://bit.ly/44cLtZ0 📍 GBI East, New York City June 18 https://bit.ly/440lwLd 📍 Seattle Ascend Dinner, Bellevue, WA June 18 https://bit.ly/440lwLd 📍 AWS Summit Mumbai, India June 19 https://go.aws/3ZRlXGv 📍 NFJS Webinar June 27 https://bit.ly/43T7JG1 #AzulEvents #Java #JavaDeveloper #Javasupport #ITAM #CIO #SoftwareManagement #AWS

Think Java isn't fit for AI? Think again. Python often dominates the AI conversation, but Java brings serious advantages to AI development—like scalability, multi-threading, and JIT compilation. In this blog, Azul Deputy CTO and Java Champion Simon Ritter explores why Java deserves a seat at the AI table and breaks down the common myths holding it back. Read it here! https://bit.ly/44632Jk #Java #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenJDK #Developers #JavaDevelopers #Python #MachineLearning #JVM

Rising costs have caused many companies to migrate off of Oracle Java, turning to alternative distributions like OpenJDK instead. Why? Our CEO and co-founder Scott Sellers details the shift in his Forbesarticle. Read here: https://bit.ly/3T2usKI and swipe right below! #Java #OracleJava #OpenJDK #OpenJDKMigration

Retailers can keep up with business operations with Java, the dominant technology solution in the retail industry. Otherwise they would be negatively impacted by out-of-the-box OpenJDK distributions, which can lead to poor shopping experiences. Azul Platform Prime is a high-performance Java platform that improves retail application performance and helps retailers save on cloud costs. Swipe right to learn more about Prime’s use cases and check out our recent blog post for additional insights! https://bit.ly/43E3Xl5 #AzulPlatformPrime #CloudCostOptimization #HighPerformanceJavaPlatform #Java #OpenJDK

Despite having just celebrated its 30 year anniversary, #Java is still going strong. Scroll through the list of other programming languages created in the 90s and you won’t find many names you’d still recognize today, yet Java is still prevalent across the industry. We spoke with Simon Ritter from Azul, Brian Fox from Sonatype, and Tanja Obradovic from the Eclipse Foundation about the evolution of the language over the last three decades and why it's still relevant today. https://lnkd.in/eMsbKgXG

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Chainguard, the secure foundation for software development and deployment. This strategic partnership unites our best-in-class commercial support and curated OpenJDK distributions with Chainguard’s world-class Linux distro, software factory and container images. The result? You can now deploy commercially supported Azul Platform Core in Chainguard zero-CVE containers, providing a streamlined secure foundation for Java applications that reduces risk, accelerates delivery and eliminates the trade-off between security and support. 💬 As Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc says: “Our customers need solutions that reduce risk and build trust at every layer of their modern software deployment stack.” 💬 And from our Co-founder and CEO, Scott Sellers: “Choosing a hardened container shouldn’t mean sacrificing timely security-only updates and commercial support services for your Java runtimes.” Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/442cDk9 Blog 👉 https://bit.ly/4jSszeP #Azul #Chainguard #Java #OpenJDK

Join us at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in Mumbai! Chat with the Azul team on moving Java workloads to AWS and maximizing AWS Graviton price and performance without any code changes. Excited to see you there! 📅 Date: June 19, 2025 📍 Location: Jio World Convention Center, Mumbai More details here: https://go.aws/3SNtPVl #AzulEvents #AzulPlatformPrime #Java #JavaDevelopers #DevOps #DevOpsProductivity #AWSSummitMumbai