> Btw, have you tried Leyden/AOT for better startup times? Curious about your experiences with that.

Nope, not yet. It's a good question given that up to now we used to deliver our product only on-premises and Windows Server-only, but this year we are now finally going with the Cloud, which means Docker containers and Linux.

If I remember correctly Leyden required some sort of warm-up and training data collection before being able to effectively execute AOT, right? I need to freshen up my info on that.

I did try GraalVM-compiled Java executables a couple of years ago and they were not bad, but the binaries were quite big (not a showstopper though) and the class-loading issues were kind of a PITA.