Recently a respected member of the Apache community tried Log4j 2 and wrote on Twitter: @TheASF #log4j2 rocks big times! Performance is close to insane ^^ http://t.co/04K6F4Xkaa — Mark Struberg (@struberg) May 7, 2013 (Quote from Mark Struberg: @TheASF #log4j2 rocks big times! Performance is close to insane ^^ http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ ) It happened shortly after Remko Popma contributed