Axelix goes GA. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
On behalf of the core Axelix team, and everybody who has contributed to the community, I want to declare: we finally did it. Axelix, finally, goes GA (Generally Available)! For those who do not know - Axelix is a product with an Open Source core, that allows you to discover the common problems, pitfalls and inefficiencies in Java applications at large scale. We're available on GitHub (btw - give us a star!). In this post, I want to share the story and the motivation behind the product overall. I hope you find it interesting. The Story. Big "Why" Behind Axelix Java is quite an interesting language and ecosystem in general. I think a lot of people will not argue that it is quite old, and it was one of the first so-called "Object-Oriented" languages, that actually gained massive adoption. It both was, and it still is the backbone of modern enterprise. For anyone who claims that Java is dead - I recommend checking the JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem survey or even the Stack Overflow survey for 2025 (and Stack Overflow has, sadly, become a part of history). It is clear that Java as a language and the "ecosystem" around it (including Kotlin) is still relatively popular, and it remains true. Ecosystems around Languages The experienced developer knows that today's ecosystems that evolve around languages are typically very diverse. For example, let's talk about JavaScript. If we decide to run JavaScript on the server, then we're probably going to work with a database of some sort. Therefore, we're also going to need a framework, a library to work with the database, e.g. an ORM (I know that we may work without it but let's leave that aside). And in JavaScript, we have quite a lot of options: Prisma TypeORM DrizzleORM Kysely and so on. We can pretty safely state that Prisma ORM is probably the most used ORM on JavaScript . But notice that it is far from being the definitive JavaScript ORM. It is not like Prisma is the default choice and is by far the most popular ORM -