https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/author/kieran-hejmadi/Articles written by Kieran Hejmadi on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDKHugoen-usWed, 16 Apr 2025 10:27:49 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/optimizing-the-garbage-collector-when-migrating-cloud-workloads/Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:27:49 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/optimizing-the-garbage-collector-when-migrating-cloud-workloads/<p><strong>You might associate Arm primarily with smartphones and the Java-based Android runtime. However, OpenJDK has supported AArch64 on Linux since 2014&mdash; before Arm-based cloud instances were widely available.</strong> <strong>Fast forward a decade and major cloud providers have their own Arm-based instances like AWS Graviton, Microsoft Azure Cobalt, and others, prompting many organizations to migrate Java workloads from x86 to multi-architecture environments.</strong></p> <p>A multi-architecture deployment shift allows an organization to be adaptable and choose the architecture with the ideal price to performance ratio. Large independent software vendors, such as Uber, are <a href="https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/adopting-arm-at-scale-bootstrapping-infrastructure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">already making this transition</a> .</p>