The Micronaut Framework kicked off a wave of innovation in JVM-based microservices, helping to mainstream Ahead Of Time compilation, small application binaries, and native image support. With the 4.x release, Micronaut continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible with “natively cloud-native” services on the JVM. In this talk you’ll get a concise introduction to Micronaut, and learn about several new and exciting features in the latest major release of the framework, including virtual threads, object storage, code generation for API clients, and support for expressions.