VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B

Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by zmmmmm on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:25AM (#20775516)

The Java ecosystem is in an interesting place at the moment because it seems to me the penny has finally dropped and they are starting to prioritize footprint and startup time - probably becuase it's clear that you can't run a huge honking app server in a lambda service or even a VM that isn't horrifically expensive to rent, but the whole industry is moving towards that.

So now you have things like Micronaut that start up in milliseconds and GraalVM suddenly getting taken seriously etc. And (for example) with Micronaut you pretty much have all the advantages of Spring Boot but about 6 lines of Groovy gets you a perfectly configured REST style API end point that starts up in hundreds of milliseconds.

So it's going to be very interesting whether this "pivot" of the Java ecosystem works, and where that lands all the traditional Java vendors ....

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by jacques_chester on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:31AM (#20778019)

Spring-based software launches in hundreds or even tens of milliseconds if you've precompiled on Graal. The Spring team have been working closely with Graal folks to remove roadblocks.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, though not on Spring.

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