Why Bloomberg Chose Vendor-Neutral Java Over Big Tech

When Bloomberg decided to standardize its Java infrastructure in 2018, the company faced a decision that would impact more than 1,000 engineers and some of the world’s largest deployments of Apache Kafka, Cassandra and Solr. The stakes were high. As a provider of financial infrastructure to investment and business professionals globally, reliability was not optional — it was mandatory.

The company’s choice — Eclipse Temurin, the OpenJDK distribution from the Eclipse Foundation’s Adoptium Working Group — provides lessons for any…