Going Native with Spring Boot and GraalVM

In the world of cloud computing, microservices, and serverless functions, startup time and memory consumption are critical metrics. Traditional Java applications, running on a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiled JVM, can be relatively slow to start and consume a significant amount of memory. This chapter explores a groundbreaking solution to this problem: compiling Spring Boot applications into self-contained native executables using GraalVM.