Hands‑On Experience with Spring Boot 3.2, JDK 21, and GraalVM Native Images
The article walks through building a Spring Boot 3.2 application with JDK 21 as a GraalVM native image, compares binary and jar deployments, benchmarks against Go and Rust implementations, and concludes that AOT‑processed native images dramatically reduce startup time and memory usage despite long compile times.
