Azul Platform Prime

We used Azul Platform Prime as replacement for previous products that uses Non AZUL mainly for WebLogic systems. One of the business problem addressed was on the cost savings part, that was quite a lot of savings, and the another one is we have save a lot time addressing the of bug fixes on the systems that WebLogic systems.

Azul Platform Prime is really great products in terms of cost effectiveness, it will bring more savings to the company. It is worth it with the (ROI) Returns of Investments. For us Azul JDK works well for servers e.g. RedHat Linux and Windows (version 10 and 11) clients workstations.

Azul Platform Prime is a highly optimized JVM and elastic runtime that breaks traditional Java scale barriers and provides applications with improvement in Java responsiveness, scale, and throughput. We use it for Java based applications which have enhanced scalability and reliability needs

I had a few hiccups when integrating Azul Platform Prime with Apache Hadoop and Spark but other than that it is an excellent solution

I couldn’t see much impact on performance, but I saw after moving to Azul Zing, GC logs started flooding my console, even after taking proper care. Also the support from Azul team during initial days was highly poor. Even now, the support is average as my team faced issues, they were not so satisfied with the support.

If you want some low cost JDK provider where you need the frequent updates as well, you can go ahead for Azul Zing instead of openjdk. But if budget is not a concern, I would recommend going for some well known company such as Oracle. Also if you are using Azul for production, make sure to use it for Dev ENV too so as to reproduce issues.

We use Azul Prime to reduce latency and increase EC2 instance efficiency withing a real time bidding platform. Speed is life for any real time system and any ad serving platform and we're looking to extract any efficiencies we can.

Azul helped use reduce and more efficiently use our AWS EC2 resources. We approached them in Q3 of 2021 with the goal of reducing our overall latency on the JVM 8 platform. They managed to do that for us in such a way that we could expand our options within EC2 for machine architectures and take advantage of additional resources on existing infrastructure that OpenJDK could not at that time. I'd recommend the platform for teams that are looking to focus on their business problems and not wanting to allocate engineering staff to be full time JVM engineers. I'd also recommend them for companies that have a large extant JVM systems that want a fairly easy way to optimize their current systems without entire rewrites.