Laurențiu Splică

Java Champion, Author, Development Consultant

Laurenţiu Spilca is a dedicated development lead and trainer at a large company, where he leads the development of projects in the financial market, with users in Europe, the US, and Asia. 

He works as a software developer since 2009. Laurentiu believes it’s important to not only deliver high-quality software but also share knowledge and help others to up-skill. Because of this philosophy, Laurenţiu designs and teaches courses related to Java technologies and delivers presentations and workshops.

Everything Wrong in Java comes with an excuse

Have you ever noticed peculiar things while working with Java? Concepts you were taught should work differently, only to find them embedded right in the JDK? Maybe you’ve wondered: Why is SQLException a checked exception?

Why aren’t local variables final by default? How is it that the Time APIs have been rewritten three times since the language’s inception? And why didn’t virtual threads exist from the start?
Join Laurentiu as he unravels the story behind these design choices and more. Let him tell you a story