Sometimes, it might be worth squeezing few more milliseconds from your Camel routes. Here are some ideas for tuning Camel based systems, which may apply for you.
Remote logging is not mysterious- You write log files to a remote computer instead of locally. This has profound applications for application build and support.
A brilliant from-the-start introduction to using Spring Boot on Docker. This article even takes you through what Docker is so you've no excuse not to give it a whirl.
Did you know Groovy has options to make your code run just as fast as Java? Take a look at this article to see what you can do to increase Groovy's speed.
One of the reasons Groovy has attained such popularity is it's ability to create and use DSLs in programming. This article goes into the inbuilt FileTreeBuilder class as a great example of this.