Azul Platform Prime

Score8.6 out of 10

17 Reviews and Ratings

What is Azul Platform Prime?

Azul Systems headquartered in Sunnyvale is exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). They build fully supported, standards-compliant runtimes that help enable Java-based businesses. Their services include Azul Platform Prime (formerly Zing), a JVM with "better behavior" enabling sustained performance, fast warmup and predictable latency without GC pauses, jitter or application timeouts. Zing can be deployed in an on-prem data center or on the Cloud.

Categories & Use Cases

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Azul Platform Prime as replacement for previous products that uses Non AZUL mainly for WebLogic systems. One of the business problem addressed was on the cost savings part, that was quite a lot of savings, and the another one is we have save a lot time addressing the of bug fixes on the systems that WebLogic systems.

Pros

Improved real-time JVM
Cost effective
product support

Cons

Improve security feature
It would be helpful if there is online test drive or simulator
Better garbage collection option

Return on Investment

A lot of OPEX savings
Easy annual license renewal subscription
Standard product usage since it is compatible across different Operating Systems.

Other Software Used

Oracle Java SE, CentOS Linux, VMware Aria Operations for Applications

Kailas Andhale View profile

Software Engineer in Engineering at Qualys (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I couldn’t see much impact on performance, but I saw after moving to Azul Zing, GC logs started flooding my console, even after taking proper care. Also the support from Azul team during initial days was highly poor. Even now, the support is average as my team faced issues, they were not so satisfied with the support.

Pros

Costing

Cons

Support
GC logging

Return on Investment

Reduced infra cost than Oracle

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Java SE and OpenJDK

Other Software Used

Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS Security Hub

Sonali Rungta Sharda

Digital Communications Professional in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azul Platform Prime is a highly optimized JVM and elastic runtime that breaks traditional Java scale barriers and provides applications with improvement in Java responsiveness, scale, and throughput. We use it for Java based applications which have enhanced scalability and reliability needs

Pros

Scalability
Cloud native security
reliability
higher throughput

Cons

newer vulnerabilities got added
Integration with Apache Hadoop should show errors more clearly
Integration with Apache Spark also need errors defined more clearly

Keith Sader View profile

Senior Manager, Ad Server in Information Technology at GumGum (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azul Prime to reduce latency and increase EC2 instance efficiency withing a real time bidding platform. Speed is life for any real time system and any ad serving platform and we're looking to extract any efficiencies we can.

Pros

JVM memory allocation and garbage collection
Developer monitoring tools
Customer support

Cons

Cloud level payments. This was a manual process for us and them.
Provide either default Docker containers for applications or Amazon AMIs
Add some hands-on training courses for their dev tooling.

Return on Investment

Improved stability during our seasonal busy period
Increased efficiency of AWS EC2 resources - we could use all of the memory on the machines
Took the JVM optimization burden off of the engineering staff.

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