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12. Spring Boot Native and AOT

Felipe Gutierrez1  
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In this chapter I will explain what GraalVM is and how Spring Boot takes advantage of its features by producing native apps that can increase performance, provide faster startup times, improve portability, and much more.

What is Spring AOT?

Spring AOT (Ahead-of-Time) is a new feature introduced in Spring Framework 6 designed to optimize application startup time and reduce runtime overhead, particularly for large and complex applications.

Spring ...

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