Supercharge your Native Image applications 🚀

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Shows how GraalVM Native Image compiles Java ahead of time and cuts startup and memory use, demonstrates using Native Build Tools with Gradle to run native tests, uses the tracing agent to generate reflection config, pulls library metadata from the reachability metadata repo to fix H2/MySQL issues, runs Micronaut tests with Testcontainers, shows profile‑guided optimization for throughput, proves virtual threads and JFR work in native images, and shrinks binaries with UPX (66MB→17MB) while warning of tradeoffs.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 1:07What is GraalVM and its features
3. 3:39Native Image overview and benefits
4. 8:55Building your first Native Image app
5. 14:03Handling reflection in Native Image
6. 20:34GraalVM reachability metadata repository
7. 25:02Native Image performance comparison
8. 31:24Optimizing memory and security
9. 33:11Quick build mode and tooling
10. 35:17Latest GraalVM features demo
11. 38:53Q&A and closing remarks

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