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Re:Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency by ashtonkem on Sunday May 17, 2020 @12:33PM (#23213101)
That’s the reasonable choice for consumer facing applications, yeah. For server applications it makes more sense to use something like Docker or a pre-built AMI.

For what I do “how do I get Java on the server” is much less difficult than making deployments quicker and more efficient, which is more a problem for our CI/CD harness and integration tests. Neither of which are Java specific per se.

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Re:Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency by parasubvert on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:55AM (#23221202)
For server apps you don’t even need a Docker image or AMI, a fat JAR will usually do 90% of what you need.

That said if you want to keep your JDK up to date via Docker or AMI of course that’s fine. a jlink JAR does the same thing but I can see the desire for wanting to decouple runtime upgrades from code upgrades.

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