JAZ, Copilot SDK, and Why LLMs Write Better Java

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Bruno Borges about the JAZ command launcher for Java and various cloud and AI technologies.

An airhacks.fm conversation with Bruno Borges ( @brunoborges ) about: discussion about the JAZ command launcher for Java , JVM tuning and default ergonomics for containers versus dedicated cloud environments, replacing the Java launcher with jaz in container images, supporting Java 8 to 25, maximizing resource utilization on kubernetes to reduce waste, running Java on Azure Functions , Azure App Service deploying a fat JAR without a container image, Azure Container Apps as a platform on AKS without YAML , Azure Kubernetes Service and AKS Automatic , Bicep as infrastructure as code, deploying a JAR to Kubernetes via OCI artifacts and a custom operator, Microsoft Foundry and the Microsoft Agent Framework , Semantic Kernel learnings, the Copilot SDK for Java communicating with headless CLIs, A2A and ACP protocols and MCP , agents as microservices with scoped tasks, guardrails, and sandboxing, per-agent model selection for cost and reasoning trade-offs, observability and traceability between agents with opentelemetry , grounding LLMs against MicroProfile , Jakarta EE , JAX-RS normative RFC 2119 specifications for hallucination-free Java code generation, the Boundary Control Entity…

People in this episode

Host: Adam Bien

Guest: Bruno Borges

Topics covered

• Java command launcher
• JVM tuning
• Kubernetes resource utilization
• Azure cloud services
• AI and LLMs
• Java code generation
• Infrastructure as code

Keywords

• JAZ
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Azure
• Copilot SDK
• LLMs
• JVM tuning
• infrastructure as code
• GitHub Copilot
• Java code generation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Azure Functions, Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Agent Framework

Products: Copilot SDK, JAZ, Java, Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, Bicep, org.json

Books & works: Jakarta EE, JAX-RS

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