Alpine or not?
Small size is the easy part of the answer. This video gets into everything that can change it once the image meets a real workload.
youtu.be/37tnF-THIkE
BellSoft
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Delivering #LibericaJDK: supported, @Java standard compatible binaries. Among Top-5 @OpenJDK contributors.
- Hardened images remove the package manager, curl, and other handy tools. Great for the attack surface. Less great when production breaks. JRush Episode 7 gets into that trade-off and plenty more around signing, SBOMs, provenance, buildpacks, and CVE response:
- Buildpacks remove a lot of repetitive containerization work, but they also trade some control for automation. @cat_edelveis breaks down that trade-off in seven minutes, including where a Dockerfile still makes more sense: youtu.be/19ZDEvnjtDI
- JEP 532 in #Java27 brings exact conversion checks to primitive patterns in switch and instanceof. A pattern matches only when the value can be converted without losing information. No manual range checks or lossy casts. Fifth preview.
- CyberJAR is now in the @foojayio Java in Education Catalog. A useful collection of Java courses, videos, books, and tools, now including our channel:
