It's that time of the year gain! Devoxx time! And we love being here. But you know which place we love even more? Production. And we don't know anything that makes it easier to survive and thrive in production than Spring Boot 4 and GraalVM!
In this session, join us - Oracle Vice President and GraalVM benevolent dictator for life Thomas Wuerthinger and his trusty sidekick, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long - and we’ll look at some of the amazing ways that Spring Boot 4 and GraalVM are an insurmountable win for your JVM applications in 2026, to say nothing of your Python and WebAssembly applications! Experience blazingly fast startup, better security, and lower footprint for greener and cheaper production deployments!
In this session, join us - Oracle Vice President and GraalVM benevolent dictator for life Thomas Wuerthinger and his trusty sidekick, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long - and we’ll look at some of the amazing ways that Spring Boot 4 and GraalVM are an insurmountable win for your JVM applications in 2026, to say nothing of your Python and WebAssembly applications! Experience blazingly fast startup, better security, and lower footprint for greener and cheaper production deployments!
Thomas Wuerthinger
Oracle
Thomas Wuerthinger is a Vice President at Oracle leading programming language implementation teams for languages including Python, JavaScript, and Java. He is the architect of the Graal compiler and the Truffle self-optimizing runtime system. Previously, he worked on the Crankshaft optimizing compiler of V8 at Google, and the Maxine research virtual machine at Sun Microsystems. He received a PhD degree from JKU Linz for his research about dynamic code evolution.
Josh Long
The Spring team
Josh (@starbuxman) has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 7 books (including "Reactive Spring") and numerous best-selling video training (including "Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons" with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Axon, Spring Cloud, Activiti, Vaadin, etc), a Youtuber (Coffee + Software with Josh Long as well as my Spring Tips series ), and a podcaster ("A Bootiful Podcast").