Bloomberg Joins Adoptium Working Group
December 19, 2022
Bloomberg recently joined the Adoptium Working Group as an Enterprise Member (and also became a Contributing Member of the Eclipse Foundation). Enterprise Members are organizations that view the Adoptium Working Group-managed technology as a critical part of its organization‘s business operations and want to support the development of a Java runtime technology ecosystem through its adoption of Eclipse Temurin.
Many of the open source components used in Bloomberg’s core infrastructure — such as Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Apache Spark, Apache ZooKeeper, and Trino (the list goes on) — require a Java runtime to run. These systems form the backbone on which many of Bloomberg’s engineering teams build their products. As such, having access to high-quality OpenJDK binaries is crucial to the success of our teams and products.
In late 2018/early 2019, Bloomberg’s Java & JVM Guild, a “community of interest” dedicated to advancing Java’s adoption and use at Bloomberg, decided that the company needed to move to a free, open source-provided JDK build based on OpenJDK. Together with the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and Compute Architecture teams in the company’s CTO Office, the Guild selected AdoptOpenJDK and made their builds available through all official channels for the Long-Term Support (LTS) and latest major versions of Java. Today, there are thousands of deployments of this JDK within Bloomberg, and this open source program is relied upon for all the Java code that runs at Bloomberg and for timely security patches.
“We’ve been distributing Temurin (formerly AdoptOpenJDK) binaries since 2018, and we’re pretty happy about how easy it has been to integrate within our builds, how distributions are regularly patched, and the wide number of versions and platforms supported,” said Hector Geraldino, one of the leaders of Bloomberg’s Java & JVM Guild who is also serving as Bloomberg’s representative to the Adoptium Working Group.
Bloomberg’s Java & JVM Guild’s initial effort to support a technical community
“Having benefited from the availability and reliability of the AdoptOpenJDK builds for several years, we felt the time was right for Bloomberg to begin making a direct contribution to support the effort after the project moved to the Eclipse Foundation and rebranded as Adoptium,” said Eric Wilson, co-chair of Bloomberg’s Java & JVM Guild. “We’re thrilled that this is the first sponsorship initiated by the Guild on behalf of our internal Java user community.”
Michael Moss, a member of Bloomberg’s OSPO and co-chair of the Java & JVM Guild noted, “We look forward to being a strategic partner of the Eclipse Foundation and the Adoptium project’s Steering Committee. By sharing our experiences, we hope to surface more opportunities for contribution & collaboration going forward, while also ensuring the project’s goals and Bloomberg’s continue to align.”
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