GraalVM Native Image can compile Java applications into native executables for improved performance and lower resource usage compared to the traditional Java Runtime. It works by ahead-of-time compiling Java applications into native images that have a smaller footprint when deployed in containers and start faster than traditionally interpreted Java applications. Native images generated by GraalVM Native Image were shown to use half the memory and achieve better throughput than the same application running on the Java Runtime when deployed to Oracle Kubernetes Engine.