Java & Programing languagesJava & Programing languages
Conference50min
BEGINNER

Learning modern Java the playful way

This session introduces modern Java features like Structured Concurrency and Stream Gatherers, making them approachable for beginners and experienced developers alike. Marit and Piotr will explain the concepts and demonstrate how to use them in your IDE, helping you confidently start using modern Java tools and features.

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Marit van Dijk
Marit van DijkJetBrains
Piotr Przybyl
Piotr PrzybylElastic
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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.
java
structuredconcurrency
streamgatherers
ide
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Marit van Dijk

Marit van Dijk

JetBrains

Netherlands

Marit van Dijk is a Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains with over 20 years of software development experience. She’s passionate about building great software with great people, and making developers’ lives easier.
Marit regularly presents at international conferences and shares her expertise through webinars, podcasts, blog posts, videos, and tutorials. She’s also a contributor to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).
Piotr Przybyl

Piotr Przybyl

Elastic

Poland

Notorious engineer at work and after hours, tracing meanders of the art of software engineering. Remote Software Gardener, mostly working in web-oriented Java gardens. Java Champion. Docker Captain. Testcontainers Champion. 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.