Explore Twitter's journey towards implementing the Graal runtime in this 50-minute conference talk from Scala Days New York 2018. Delve into the challenges faced by Twitter's engineering team, including compilation issues, crashes, and memory leaks. Learn about the innovative solutions developed, such as the two-line fix and compact strings. Examine the impact of these optimizations on CPU utilization, tweet service performance, and data center costs. Gain insights into the potential benefits of increased inlining and JIT compiler tweaks. Discover how Twitter's quest for improved runtime efficiency could lead to significant cost savings across thousands of servers. Understand the broader implications for Java development and enterprise-scale applications.