What the CRaC - Superfast JVM Startup

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Overview of a concrete fix: an OpenJDK project CRaC uses Linux CRIU to take a warmed JVM snapshot and restore it later, cutting Spring PetClinic startup from ~4.1s to ~700ms with automatic framework checkpoint and to ~300ms with a manual full-app checkpoint; native-image was ~500ms. It requires Linux on Intel/ARM and JDK 17+, exposes a simple API (beforeCheckpoint/afterRestore), produces ~250MB checkpoints in the demo, and the or.crack library is on Maven Central.

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1. 0:00CRaC and JVM startup
2. 1:07JVM runtime execution
3. 10:03Slow Java startup in containers
4. 15:29Checkpoint/Restore (CRIU) limits
5. 20:04CRaC solves CRIU limits
6. 23:56Create and use CRaC checkpoint
7. 28:15CRaC OS support
8. 30:25CRaC library/frameworks
9. 31:52Spring Boot 3.2 CRaC
10. 32:14Live demo: CRaC vs no CRaC
11. 36:45CRaC cost savings
12. 37:50CRaC vs AOT/native images
13. 39:59Q&A: Inflight connections
14. 41:24Q&A: Java version impact
15. 41:46Q&A: Faster startup rules
16. 42:29Q&A: CRaC CI/CD pipeline
17. 43:55Q&A: Production checkpoints

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