[aflag]

If networking is not a problem, why not deploy it already decompressed? I'm assuming the 5 minutes time included decompressing it? It seems a bit weird to take so much time to allocate some objects in memory and possibly establish a few connections.

Anyway, can you share which kind of environment even a 5 minute deployment would be a problem? Most places I worked at it took a lot more than 5 minutes to actually implement the change that's going to production, so deployment times were pretty much irrelevant overall.

[daxfohl]

OP here. The move is definitely needed in our case as it's to the point where IntelliJ won't even load anymore. But I had to laugh when improved testability was brought up as one of the benefits.