👉 Intro

I recently saw a great Spring blog post aboutBuilding Native Images with GraalVM and Spring Native on Apple's M1 Architecture.

In the same time we are investigating on porting some of our (innovation dedicated) existing Spring Boot based APIs toSpring Native, see related content :

Knative : the easy way to serverless a java app

Daniel Santos for opt-nc ・ Mar 4 '22

#serverless#kubernetes#java#devops

As one of our developers works on an Mac M1, we wanted to give it a try to see what would happen.

This short blog post is about that short experimentation.

🎞️ Build & Run : 2' speedrun

Finally we could enjoy the full and smooth cli based experience :

1. Setup Java runtime withGraalVM22.0.0 withsdkman
2. Build & Install native image (and see resources used : time & memory)
3. Boot the API (0.4s.)
4. Perform a first REST query (0.007 s.) withhttpie
5. Perform a second REST query (0.003 s.)

Let the show begin :

🍏 More about Apple M1

You can get a full intro/deep dive on Apple M1 Ultra architecture thanks to this greatComputerphile episode :

🔖 Resources

• APIhomepage on Dockerhub
• API onRapidAPI marketplace
• Building Native Images with GraalVM and Spring Native on Apple's M1 Architecture