In a cloud-native world, the facility to convert Java applications into efficient, lightweight executables has gained much importance. Docker containers revolutionized application packaging and deployment but still carry the overhead of running a full JVM inside each container, increasing memory usage and slowing down startups. This is where GraalVM shines as it overcomes these limitations by converting Java bytecode into standalone native executables that start almost instantly and consume significantly less memory—features especially valuable in microservices architectures and serverless environments.