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Azul Platform Core

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What is Azul Platform Core?

Azul Systems headquartered in Sunnyvale is exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). They build fully supported, standards-compliant runtimes that help enable Java-based businesses. Azul Platform Core (formerly Zulu Enterprise) subscribers get quarterly access to security-only updates (ideal for rapid deployment) plus standard quarterly updates that include security patches, bug fixes, and new features.

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Well supported JVM for enterprise applications with memory and performance needs

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Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azul Platform Core to run our heavy single booking system backend that is very heavy on memory. We used to have big problems with GC pause times as well as class loaders causing very slow response times after releases.
Azul Platform Core helped us resolve both issues and with the help of Zing Vision we now have a much better control over any similar problems that can occur.

Pros

  • Performance and big memory footprints
  • Garbage collector, alternatives
  • Support is great

Cons

  • More documentation
  • More introductions on how to use their additional tooling

Return on Investment

  • Cost savings compared to going with Oracle
  • Since using Azul Platform Core our system has been much more stable with fewer crashes causing our team being able to focus on new features

Other Software Used

Microsoft SQL Server, Graylog, Jenkins

Great solution for our Java needs!

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Aaron Meek
Manager, Payments in Information Technology at Meijer (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it to license java for our point of sale and payment systems.

Pros

  • Updates are released quickly
  • Notifications of patches are sent ahead of time to prepare for the change
  • Delivery was quick and seemless

Cons

  • Non at this time

Return on Investment

  • When compared to direct sourcing through oracle the cost of ownership was much lower.
  • Azul Platform Core gets security patching within days of its release from Oracle.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Java SE Subscription

Other Software Used

AURUS

A huge boost to our business critical application

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Tiziano Bezzi
Solution Architect in Information Technology at Icteam (Lutech) (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We bad a business critical application with a big telco customer which managed billions of messages/day and which had performance problems connected to memory and gc. We evaluated with great sucvess the use of an Azul Platform Core appliance. The replacement was a very simple task with no changes to the original application.

Pros

  • Memory management
  • GC
  • Latency response time stability

Cons

  • Documentation

Return on Investment

  • Easy JVM change
  • Throughput stability
  • Reliability

Other Software Used

IntelliJ IDEA, Apache JMeter

Azul Platform Core in Comparison With its Peers

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Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Azul Platform Core for all our Java products. Azul Platform Core is used as it is cheaper than Oracle and more secure than OpenJDK.

Pros

  • Cost-effective
  • Additional JVM arguments
  • High throughput

Cons

  • Support from the Azul Team
  • High CPU and memory at times
  • Missing support for some of OpenJDK JVM options

Return on Investment

  • It was available at a low price.
  • Security updates are frequent.
  • Some additional JVM options help increase throughput.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Java SE and OpenJDK

Other Software Used

Oracle Java SE, OpenJDK

High performance Azul Platform Core.

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Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our enterprise application stack is Java and Spring framework based and we have been using Azul Platform Core for over 4 years. We are very satisfied with their Linux JDKs as they always offer great performance for real-time applications hosted on both Intel/AMD servers. Their Platform Core product is well-documented and easy to use.

Pros

  • Always complain about Oracle JDKs.
  • It is optimized for both Intel/AMD server hardware.
  • Up-to-date and easy-to-use documentation.

Cons

  • Offer more docker configurations with popular application stacks.

Return on Investment

  • Consistent performance on Intel/AMD server hardware.

Other Software Used

Spring Framework, Linux Containers LXD, Docker

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