Staying up to date with modern Java can feel overwhelming. If you don’t have any experience with recent Java versions (or at all), features like Structured Concurrency or Stream Gatherers might sound exciting, but also scary: “How do I even get started with that?” Fear not! In this session Marit and Piotr will explain to you the new exciting things and also show you how to use them in your IDE, so that the next day you can start having fun and profit with modern Java in your favourite tools on your own.
Development
Learning modern Java the playful way
Marit van Dijk
With over 20 years of software development experience, Marit is passionate about building great software with great people, and making developers’ lives easier. She regularly presents at international conferences and shares her expertise through webinars, podcasts, blog posts, videos, and tutorials. She's also contributed to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).
Piotr Przybyl
Notorious engineer at work and after hours, tracing meanders of the art of software engineering. Java Champion. Docker Captain. Testcontainers Champion. Remote Software Gardener, mostly working in web-oriented Java gardens. Programming usually in Java (since 1.3), Scala and Go, but in other languages too. Fan of agility, seen mostly as choosing the right tools and approaches after asking the right questions. Developer, trainer and conference speaker.
In his talks, Piotr covers not only hardcore Java but also software architecture, computer security, and soft-skills.
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