Know Your Tools
A practical developer tools course for teams that want faster workflows, better debugging, and more confidence with everyday engineering tools.
Hands-on training in the tools essential for a professional developer. This course is mainly focused on the tools used to solve real-life problems. Developers will gain knowledge on a variety of topics, including effective use of IDE, practical use of Git, optimizing database access, troubleshooting JVM issues, build tools like Maven, plenty of tips and tricks, and more.
60% workshop /
40% lecture
- Training Materials
- Slack Community
Developers
- IDE mastery and debugging techniques
- Version-control workflows with Git
- Command-line skills and automation
- Working with Docker and databases
- Practical tips that save time daily
Day 1
- •IDE - IntelliJ Idea
- ○Features
- ○Shortcuts
- ○Preferences
- ○Working with multiple projects
- ○Database access
- ○Useful plugins
- •Debugging
- ○Debugging in IntelliJ Idea
- ○Debugging Java run from Maven
- ○Remote debugging
- •Terminal
- •Maven
- •Git
- •Logging
- ○Logback, Log4j2
- ○Capturing logs
- •Writing less code with Lombok
Day 2
- •Java and JVM
- ○JDK differences in implementations
- ○OracleJDK
- ○OpenJDK
- ○OpenJ9
- ○JVM
- ○Understanding JVM memory
- ○Garbage collector
- ○Useful JVM params
- •Troubleshooting Java applications
- ○Using Profilers: YourKit, JProfiler, VisualVM, Opsian
- ○Using Samplers
- ○Identifying bottlenecks with VisualVM
- ○Using core dump with VisualVM
- ○Troubleshooting slow database access
- •Containerization
- ○Building Docker images for java applications
- ○Using Dockerfile
- ○Using maven plugins (Spring, Jib, Buildpack)
- ○Optimizing Docker images
- ○Size of the image
- ○Startup time
- ○Memory usage
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