Graal Upload Era Review

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 .

native-image -O3 -o myapp myapp.jar ./myapp …and it’s up before my terminal finishes rendering. graal upload era

We’ve officially entered the .

We’re living through the – where Java finally becomes a truly native citizen on the cloud, edge, and desktop. No warm-up. No bullshit. If you haven’t tried spring-native or quarkus in

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 ). We’ve officially entered the

Remember when deploying Java meant warming up JIT compilers for hours and praying your garbage collection wouldn't ruin the demo?

For the past 20 years, the "write once, run anywhere" promise had a dirty secret: it only ran well after a long, painful warm-up. Cold starts were the enemy. Serverless was a fantasy. And native images? That was for C++ folks.