Java: past, present and future in banking and microservices

Java in Indian banking: microservices, JVM scaling, alternatives, and cloud versus on-premises deployment decisions.

Java in Indian banking: microservices, JVM scaling, alternatives, and cloud versus on-premises deployment decisions.

Spring Boot 4 supports the JDK 25+ AOT cache - and published benchmarks show 2-4x faster startup. The recipe, the numbers, and the one step (extract the JAR) that decides whether you get the win.

Project Leyden's AOT cache cuts Java startup by ~78% on small services and roughly 3s to under 1s on large ones - no code changes, JIT intact. What it caches, how it differs from GraalVM native, the Quarkus recipe, and the operational catches.