If you haven’t tried spring-native or quarkus in native mode in 2024/2025, do yourself a favor. The future of the JVM is .
We went from: “Java for microservices? LOL, cold start goes brrrr.” To: “Yeah, our entire trading edge service is a native Java binary. It runs on a Raspberry Pi. Uploads take 1.2 seconds.” Graal isn’t just a niche ahead-of-time compiler anymore. It’s a first-class citizen in Spring Boot 3, Quarkus, Micronaut, and even GitHub Actions (hello setup-graalvm ). graal upload era
Remember when deploying Java meant warming up JIT compilers for hours and praying your garbage collection wouldn't ruin the demo? If you haven’t tried spring-native or quarkus in
I still remember -XX:+TieredCompilation and fighting C2 compiler thresholds. Now I just run: LOL, cold start goes brrrr
We’ve officially entered the .
native-image -O3 -o myapp myapp.jar ./myapp …and it’s up before my terminal finishes rendering.