Azul today announced that its high-performance Java platform based on OpenJDK, Azul Platform Prime, delivers record performance against industry benchmarks, outperforming other OpenJDK distributions by an average of 37%.

The company also introduced its Java Performance Engineering Lab, which collaborates with global Java developers and customers’ technical teams to deliver enhanced Java performance through continuous benchmarking, code modernization recommendations and in-depth analysis of performance impacts from new OpenJDK releases.

“Azul is redefining what’s possible with high-performance Java platforms. Today we’re delivering an average of 37% higher performance compared to other OpenJDK distributions, empowering enterprises to achieve unprecedented levels of speed, efficiency and innovation without overhauling their applications,” said Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO at Azul. “In today’s cloud-driven economy, where every millisecond and dollar counts, Azul Platform Prime is the clear choice for organizations looking to enhance user experiences, reduce operational costs and drive competitive advantage.”

Examples of recent customer achievements using Azul Platform Prime include:

• Global travel technology and distribution platform company – reduced a query application’s response time by 80%, lowered its error rate and eliminated slower and stalled transactions.
• Workday – improved its SaaS operational efficiency by 95%, eliminating over 42,000 person hours across an 18-month period. This saved Workday millions of dollars while freeing its developers to do more productive work.
• British video game developer – eliminated ticks over 600ms, erasing any pauses a gamer can detect while playing – this improved the platform’s gaming performance by 20% and improved the overall gaming experience.
• Global retailer/e-commerce company – experienced 40% reduction in compute needed for 70+ e-commerce Java applications, and transitioned to Platform Prime with no code changes.

Azul Platform Prime includes a JDK distribution that is compatible with the Java SE spec for a given LTS release, and has enhanced JDK characteristics that provide superior speed, startup and warmup, and consistency vs typical OpenJDK distributions. Azul Platform Prime also adds centralized services capabilities external to client JVMs for greater performance and operational efficiency than what stand-alone JDK distributions can provide.

LMAX Group joins hands with Azul to achieve 48% faster performance over OpenJDK

One notable customer engagement embracing the unique capabilities of Azul’s Java Performance Engineering Lab is LMAX Group. LMAX Group is a global financial technology company and the leading independent operator of multiple institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading. The company processes sustained volumes of 100,000 orders/second capable of bursting to almost a million orders/second per exchange at peak.

LMAX Group and Azul have forged a strong engineering partnership and collaborate on performance optimizations, code improvements and test suites. This cooperation has greatly contributed to the enhancement of LMAX Group’s leading low-latency trade execution capabilities and has enabled the team to focus on innovation to scale rapid growth. By working with Azul’s experts to improve the performance of their application code and running their application on Platform Prime, LMAX Group has been able to achieve 48% faster performance vs running on OpenJDK alone.