Mark Heckler
Senior Director of Field Engineering @ Moderne
Mark has worked with key players in numerous industries and organizations to develop, deliver, and maintain critical capabilities securely, on time, and on budget. Mark is a Java Champion, open source contributor, author of Spring Boot: Up and Running (https://bit.ly/springbootbook), and a licensed, instrument-rated pilot.
Presentations
Hi, Spring fans! There's never been a better time to be a JVM / Spring developer! Spring brings the worlds of security, batch processing, NoSQL and SQL data access, AI, enterprise application integration, web and microservices, gRPC, GraphQL, observability, AI, agentic systems, and so much more to your doorstep. In this talk we're going to look at some of the amazing opportunities that lay before the Spring Boot developer in 2026!