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 changed the game. Now it’s just the rules. graal upload era
I still remember -XX:+TieredCompilation and fighting C2 compiler thresholds. Now I just run: We went from: “Java for microservices
We’re living through the – where Java finally becomes a truly native citizen on the cloud, edge, and desktop. No warm-up. No bullshit. cold start goes brrrr.” To: “Yeah