In this post, experts from the Alibaba JVM team shared their experiences of using GraalVM to improve startup performance and lower memory footprint.

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<p>Today, after one year and half of work, I am pleased to announce that we’re launching the beta release of <a href="https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-native">Spring Native</a> and its availability on <a href="https://start.spring.io/">start.spring.io</a>!</p>
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<p>In practice, that means that in addition to the regular Java Virtual Machine supported by Spring since its inception, we are adding beta support for compiling Spring applications to <a href="https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/native-image/">native images</a> with <a href="https://www.graalvm.org/">GraalVM</a> in order to provide a new way to deploy Spring applications. Java and Kotlin are supported.</p>
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<p>Those native Spring applications can be deployed as a standalone executable (no JVM installation required) and offer interesting characteristics including almost instant startup (typically < 100ms), instant peak performance and…