Marit van Dijk is a software developer with over 20 years of diverse experience across various roles and companies. As a Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains, she is passionate about building awesome software in collaboration with amazing people, and making developers’ lives better.
Marit is committed to continuous learning and actively shares her expertise in programming, software development, testing, and test automation.
Marit regularly presents at international conferences, participates in webinars, and appears on podcasts. Additionally, she writes blog posts and tutorials, creates videos, and is a contributor to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).
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 favorite tools on your own.
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