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+title: "Five Java Developer Must-Haves for Ultra-Fast Startup Solutions"
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+seo-title: Five Java Developer Must-Haves for Ultra-Fast Startup Solutions - OpenLiberty.io
+seo-description: Faster Java startup should not compromise developer experience, throughput performance, or security. We discuss how we achieved this with Liberty InstantOn.
+blog_description: "Faster Java startup should not compromise developer experience, throughput performance, or security. We discuss how we achieved this with Liberty InstantOn."
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+= Five Java Developer Must-Haves for Ultra-Fast Startup Solutions
+Vijay Sundaresan <https://github.com/vijaysun-omr>
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+As more and more of our applications are developed for the cloud, and we move towards microservices and even serverless application architecture, start-up times are becoming ever more important. Unfortunately, although Java is a fantastic, robust language for developing enterprise applications, it isn't really known for its quick start-up times. 
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+However, several solutions have recently emerged to help speed up Java startup. They range from compiling a link:https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image/[native image] that removes the JVM from the compiled app (the startup speed bottleneck in Java apps) to link:https://docs.azul.com/core/crac/crac-introduction[taking a snapshot of the application] after startup so that there are no startup tasks to complete when it's restored. But, most of these solutions suffer from compromises to developer experience, throughput performance, or security. 
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+What we really need is a solution that vastly improves the start-up time of Java applications, whilst also ensuring:
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+* It's easy to implement in apps.
+* It's easy to use existing skills and APIs to write apps.
+* It's easy to enable on-the-fly configuration at deployment (restore) time. 
+* The app's peak throughput performance is not degraded.
+* The security of the app is not compromised.
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+In an article on link:https://dzone.com/articles/five-java-developer-must-haves-for-ultra-fast-star[DZone], IBM's InstantOn lead and Hybrid Cloud Performance Architect explore each of these considerations and how they've been able to achieve fast start-up without compromising on any of them with Liberty InstantOn!
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+== Find out more:
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+Find out more about Liberty InstantOn and how it enables all of this without compromise in link:https://dzone.com/articles/five-java-developer-must-haves-for-ultra-fast-star[Five Java Developer Must-Haves for Ultra-Fast Startup Solutions].