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Hands-On Cloud-Native Applications with Java and Quarkus
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Hands-On Cloud-Native Applications with Java and Quarkus

by Francesco Marchioni
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
314 pages
6h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Native code execution

Native code execution has been attempted several times during the long history of Java, but it never got much adoption by developers. First of all, it required some external tooling as this isn't provided out of the box by the platform's vendor. For monolithic applications, the advantage of native execution is minor because, in the long run, due to the advancement in the Hot Spot technology, the speed of Java can become closer to native execution (provided that you are willing to pay for a slower application bootstrap).

Nevertheless, in a microservice scenario, spinning up a bunch of native services plays a crucial role, and even optimizing seconds or a fraction of a second can play a huge difference. In much the same ...

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