The rising popularity of microservice architectures brings to mind the famous “Top Gun” movie quote, “I feel the need, the need for speed”. Smaller containers, faster startup times, and better resource utilization have become increasingly crucial for running cloud services.
Java has been long criticized for its slow startup times, numerous dependencies, whether used or unused in their entirety, and heavy resource requirements. Add the JVM and an application server to the mix, and the demands become even heavier.
