It's an interesting turnaround. Once upon a time all the thinking was that you should pile as much into shared DLLs and common runtimes as you can, because thos

It's an interesting turnaround. Once upon a time all the thinking was that you should pile as much into shared DLLs and common runtimes as you can, because those things will almost certainly be kept in the cache and will be much faster to launch / lower overhead. Now not only is it becoming "best practice" to bundle your whole runtime with your app, people are bundling the whole operating system via Docker. I'm curious if people have compared actually using a single JVM that is kept hot in OS cache vs separate minimal packaging for every app. It might favor single packaging if you only run 1 java app, but if you ran 10 different ones the benefits of shared code might win.