The cloud is becoming more and more essential in today’s world. And tools developers use to create cloud-native applications are improving everyday. But as a developer who has had no previous experience with the cloud or containers, there were a lot of hurdles I had to overcome: The complexity of the cloud toolchain available to…
With contributions from Hang Shao. By now you’ve no doubt heard of Eclipse OpenJ9 and its reputation for starting applications faster and using less memory. If not, you should visit the Eclipse OpenJ9 Performance page. The Shared Class Cache (SCC) capability is one of the main reasons why OpenJ9 can start faster and use less…
Containers are increasingly becoming the preferred way of deploying applications. They facilitate consistency between development and operations, allow for an easy way to build layers for reuse, and make it very easy for users to try out an application without having to deal with setting up all the prerequisites. However, just because applications have moved…
