Advance your Java Skills with JetBrains Academy on Hyperskill!

Are you an experienced Java developer looking to take your skills to the next level? If so, we have great news for you! JetBrains Academy on Hyperskill has just released a new track — Advanced Java. We designed this track to help you improve the performance of your applications and deepen your language knowledge. Whether you want to advance your career or take on more challenging projects, the Advanced Java track can help you achieve your goals.

As a seasoned Java developer, you may be ready to take on leadership roles or move into more strategic positions within your organization. By leveraging your experience and expertise, you can become a mentor to junior developers, lead projects and teams, or even transition into a managerial role.

What you’ll learn

With essential theory, you will identify the bottlenecks of your application and master valuable tools and libraries to gain higher performance. You will take a look at several rare Java features and libraries useful for non-trivial tasks.

In this track, you will find:

✅ description of the intricacies of the Java Virtual Machine;
✅ complete information about generics;
✅ algorithms of various garbage collectors;
✅ Java bytecode;
✅ how to start working with JVM flags;
✅ benchmarking with JMH;
✅ thread dumping and profiling;
✅ heap monitoring and analysis.

Join the community of 600,000+ learners on Hyperskill

Hyperskill is a project-based learning platform that offers a personalized curriculum and a variety of tracks to help people from different backgrounds gain market-relevant skills through online education. One of our main content providers is JetBrains. Together, we are working on JetBrains Academy — a learning resource for future developers integrated with JetBrains IDEs.

Hyperskill offers unique features to help you learn theory and practice your skills:

• Get a personalized study plan perfectly tailored to your skills and includes everything you need to reach your learning goal;
• Put your learning into practice by writing fully functional applications, such as a chatbot or a code-sharing platform, and get real-life development experience;
• Work with JetBrains IDEs, which offer you the opportunity to get experience with professional development tools while you learn to program.
• Receive a certificate of completion after finishing a track to show off your newly acquired skills and increase your chances of getting noticed by recruiters.

What’s next?

The Advanced Java track will cover the implementation of design patterns for fault tolerance and high loading, as well as introduce task-specific libraries. If you wish to further your education, you can choose additional topics from the Java Backend Developer track, which will provide a comprehensive overview of Java backend programming. For a more in-depth understanding of backend applications, explore Spring Security for Java Backend Developers.

Hyperskill is an ideal platform for learning computer science, programming languages, and mathematics. You can also build up a portfolio with your first projects. Start your journey today! If you have any inquiries or would like to share your thoughts, don’t hesitate to leave a comment or reach out to us at hello@hyperskill.org

Your Hyperskill team