A B Vijay Kumar - Supercharge Your Applications with GraalVM

Hands-on examples to optimize and extend your code using GraalVM's high performance and polyglot capabilities

A B Vijay Kumar

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To the memory of my father, Amba Prasad, and my mother, Vasantha, for all their sacrifice and upbringing. I miss you both, but I am sure you are always around me, guiding me.

To my wife, Geetha, for all her love, support, and encouragement. Without her, I wouldn't have come this far. And to my new love, Bozo, our puppy.

A B Vijay Kumar is an "IBM Distinguished Engineer" and chief technology officer focused on hybrid cloud management and platform engineering. He is responsible for providing technology strategies for managing complex application portfolios on hybrid cloud platforms using emerging tools and technologies.

He is an IBM Master Inventor who has more than 31 patents issued and 30 pending in his name. He has more than 23 years' experience at IBM. He is recognized as a subject matter expert for his contribution to advanced mobility in automation and has led several implementations involving complex industry solutions. He specializes in mobile, cloud, container, automotive, sensor-based machine-to-machine, Internet of Things, and telematics technologies.

I wish to thank my family, especially my lovely brothers, Ram and Shyam, and my extended family Saroja, Priya Shyam, Suresh, Priya Balu, Kuvalesh, Ritvik, Rijjul, Midhushi, and other family members, for all their support and encouragement.

I wish to thank my colleagues and friends, Jhilam B, Joyil J, Naveen E, Archan G, Amit D, Arun N, and Vasu R, who have provided critical feedback and helped me through the journey of writing this book.

Special thanks to Chris Seaton, from Shopify, for helping me understand some tough concepts, and debugging my issues. I would also like to thank IBM Corp and my management for encouraging me and allowing me to write this book.

Last but not least, thanks to the awesome Packt team Kunal, Rohit, Kinnari, Prajakta, Kushal, Karan, and everybody else behind the scenes, for their awesome support, without which this book would never have materialized.