InfoQ Homepage Martijn Verburg: How Microsoft Azure Supports Modern Java Workloads

Company: Microsoft

Martijn Verburg, Principal Engineering Group Manager for Java at Microsoft, describes how the company runs 2 million JVMs in production across a wide range of its internal systems, including those that support Minecraft, LinkedIn, and Azure. He describes the different kinds of Java workloads and deployment models that Azure supports, new monitoring and observability tools, and the various Java community initiatives that Microsoft is a part of, including Eclipse Adoptium, the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile working groups, and others.