Thomas Gebert

An eccentric math enthusiast and wannabe intellectual

Thomas Gebert is an adjunct lecturer at CUNY CityTech, a PhD student at the University of York, and a software engineer whose career has included companies such as Jet.com, Apple, Walmart Global Tech, and Reddit. 

In addition to a bunch of technical tomfoolery, Thomas also enjoys watching cartoons, playing with professional audio equipment, and trying out various recipes for pizza.

From ‘Java Sucks’ to ‘Java…Eh, Not Bad’: How Vert.x & Java 21 Made Me Stop Complaining

If you're attending Lambda Days, you likely have some well-deserved negative opinions of Java. 

Java 21 has made Java *almost* fun to write, particularly with the use of Vert.x, RxJava, and the Java 21 features which bring functional programming to the Java ecosystem, and allow you to pretend you're even having fun using it.

OBJECTIVES:

- Introduction to concurrency techniques in Java
- Rundown of some of the newer Java features that make the language less terrible. 
- Exploration of third-party concurrency and streaming frameworks like Vert.x and RxJava that help simplify concurrent programming.

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