Dive deep into Micronaut, a cutting-edge microservices and serverless framework for Java, Kotlin, and Groovy in this comprehensive conference talk. Explore advanced features such as dependency injection (DI), aspect-oriented programming (AOP), and ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation with Micronaut's creator, Graeme Rocher. Gain insights into the framework's elegant programming model and the motivations behind its design. Learn from Rocher's extensive experience as a software engineer and open source contributor, known for creating popular projects like Grails and GORM. Discover why Rocher won the inaugural Oracle Groundbreaker award in 2018 and how his expertise shapes the development of Micronaut at OCI.