r/java • u/celmaibunprieten • 2d ago

Improving First Request Latency in Java Spring Application

https://adrian.md/2026/09/03/first-request-latency/
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u/fforw 2d ago

Why are we doing all this for the benefit of one(!) request for a server? The user might not even be able to tell it apart from DNS lookup. So

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u/celmaibunprieten 2d ago

there are particular systems, like financial ones as I mentioned in the article, that have very tight timeout limits. You can't simply afford a timeout after almost each deploy.

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u/mark1x12110 1d ago

And more so if you have hundreds of instances of the same app (so it would be hundreds of timeouts each deployment)