https://devops-monk.com/tags/native/Recent content in Native on Devops MonkHugoen-usSun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/spring-boot/spring-boot-graalvm-native/Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/spring-boot/spring-boot-graalvm-native/A regular Spring Boot application takes 2–10 seconds to start. A GraalVM native image of the same application starts in under 100 milliseconds. For serverless functions, batch jobs, and CLI tools, this is the difference between viable and unusable. What Is a Native Image? GraalVM’s native image compiler performs ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation. Instead of shipping a JAR that the JVM interprets at runtime, you ship a standalone executable that: Contains only the code your application actually uses Has no JVM startup overhead Uses much less memory (no JIT compiler, no class metadata) Starts in milliseconds The tradeoff: compile time increases from seconds to minutes.