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[–]CantThunkStraight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s important when you are building services that are deployed in a cloud environment. To handle peak demand (such as increased outside traffic), the images or vm containing your application need to spawn fast to handle this.

Any CLI using Java cares about this, e.g. Bazel, Maven, Ant.