Course Overview
In this course, you will learn how to build your microservices as native executables by using GraalVM ahead of time compilation.
The JVM is not suited for running containerized microservices. The startup time is too slow and the memory footprint too high. The revolutionary GraalVM however lets you build your microservices as native images which leads to fantastic results: up to 50x faster startup time and up to 5x smaller memory footprint. The microservice frameworks Helidon, Quarkus, Micronaut, and Spring Boot are integrated with GraalVM. The others are expected to follow soon.
Building native executables can sometimes be challenging. Native Image uses a different way of executing Java programs than users of a common JVM are used to. It distinguishes between image build time and image run time. All code is known at image build time. No code can be loaded at runtime. What’s about dynamic class loading, reflection, dynamic proxy, JNI, serialization, security, debugging, and monitoring? In this course, you will learn how to build native images and handle these challenges.
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Who should attend
Developers, software architects, and project managers who want to develop modern cloud-native microservices that run as super-fast native executables by using GraalVM. Also trainers and consultants.
- Java developers
- Software architects
- Project managers
- Java trainers
- Technical consultants and sales engineers
Prerequisites
- Proficiency in using a Java IDE such as Eclipse, IntelliJ, or Netbeans
- Fundamental knowledge in Java
- Proficiency in object-oriented programming
- Experience with Maven
- Experience with Git
- Experience with microservice architecture and microservice frameworks such as Micronaut, Helidon, Spring Boot or Quarkus
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Build native executables
Course Content
- Build native executables
- Exercises with coding
- Answering your individual questions