native-image -O3 -o myapp myapp.jar ./myapp …and it’s up before my terminal finishes rendering.
The Graal Upload Era: When Native Java Stopped Being a Punchline
🔥 Graal changed the game. Now it’s just the rules.
I still remember -XX:+TieredCompilation and fighting C2 compiler thresholds. Now I just run:
Then GraalVM walked into the room.
Remember when deploying Java meant warming up JIT compilers for hours and praying your garbage collection wouldn't ruin the demo?
We’ve officially entered the .
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 ).
native-image -O3 -o myapp myapp.jar ./myapp …and it’s up before my terminal finishes rendering.
The Graal Upload Era: When Native Java Stopped Being a Punchline
🔥 Graal changed the game. Now it’s just the rules.
I still remember -XX:+TieredCompilation and fighting C2 compiler thresholds. Now I just run:
Then GraalVM walked into the room.
Remember when deploying Java meant warming up JIT compilers for hours and praying your garbage collection wouldn't ruin the demo?
We’ve officially entered the .
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 ).
