Spring Boot 3.x AOT Compilation in Production: Principles, Pitfalls & GraalVM Native Image Benchmarks
A hands-on guide to migrating Spring Boot 3.x applications to GraalVM Native Image, covering AOT compilation principles, CI pipeline configuration, code constraints for reflection and proxies, third-party library adaptation using native-image-agent, real-world performance benchmarks showing 70x faster cold starts and 75% memory reduction at a 5-6% throughput cost, plus Kubernetes deployment and debugging strategies.
