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What is real? How do you define real? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix. You’ve been living in a dream world.
This is the world as it exists today… Welcome… to the desert… of the real.
We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.

AI? You mean artificial intelligence?

A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines have found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, endless fields, where human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For the longest time I wouldn’t believe it, and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. Watch them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth.
What is the Matrix?
Control.
The Matrix is a computer generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into battery.

The Java ecosystem is buzzing with the potential of Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) in Spring Boot. If implemented effectively, CRaC could revolutionize how we handle JVM startup times and resource efficiency—traditionally areas where frameworks like Micronaut and Quarkus have shined. CRaC allows applications to save their state at a checkpoint and restore it instantly, bypassing the slow startup and warm-up phases. Imagine deploying Spring Boot apps that start in milliseconds, rivaling the performance of native-image-based frameworks. This could make the need for Micronaut or Quarkus redundant for many use cases.

Why is this a big deal?

✅ Faster startups: Near-instant application boot times. ✅ Resource efficiency: Reduced memory and CPU overhead. ✅ Seamless integration: Leverage Spring’s rich ecosystem without compromise. While CRaC is still evolving, its potential to level the playing field is undeniable. Could this be the end of the “framework wars”? Only time will tell, but one thing’s clear: Spring Boot is not backing down. What’s your take? Will CRaC make Micronaut and Quarkus obsolete, or will they evolve to stay ahead? Let’s discuss! 💬