Era - Graal Upload

I still remember -XX:+TieredCompilation and fighting C2 compiler thresholds. Now I just run:

We’ve officially entered the .

🔥 Graal changed the game. Now it’s just the rules. graal upload era

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 ). Now it’s just the rules

Remember when deploying Java meant warming up JIT compilers for hours and praying your garbage collection wouldn't ruin the demo? It runs on a Raspberry Pi

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

Then GraalVM walked into the room.