Spring I/O 2024 - 30-31 May, Barcelona Slides: https://2024.springio.net/slides/the-good-the-bad-the-native-springio24.pdf Native image from GraalVM offers a good, wonderful way to optimize our application, written for the JVM, and transform it in a native executable that will guarantee low startup times, low resources consumption, high performances. A lot of libraries and frameworks are still not ready for this, and that’s bad! Come discover my personal journey in the native compilation of a JVM-based application. We will see the good things, as well as the pains, the struggles and some of the ways I’ve found to be effective to solve difficult moments.