The benchmark that made me change my mind about Jakarta EE in 2026

Same backend, same database, same k6. In the first runs it looked like Embedded GlassFish was on top. When I fixed JDK, warmup, window, heap, and DB attribution, the story changed: Spring Boot ended up with the best local profile for this workload. Payara Micro was the cleanest Jakarta EE by check failures. GlassFish surprised by being viable.