About the Authors

BEN EVANS is an organizer for the LJC (London JUG) and a member of the Java Community Process Executive Committee, helping define standards for the Java ecosystem. He has lived through many years of “Interesting Times” in the tech industry and is CEO of a Java-based technology firm working mainly in the financial industry. Ben is a frequent public speaker on topics such as the Java platform, performance, and concurrency.

MARTIJN VERBURG (CTO, jClarity) has over 10 years of experience as a technology professional and OSS mentor in environments from start-ups to large enterprises. He is the coleader of the London Java User Group (LJC), and leads the global effort of JUG members who contribute to JSRs (Adopt a JSR program) and the OpenJDK (Adopt OpenJDK program).

As a recognized expert on technical team optimization, his talks and presentations are in demand at major conferences (JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, FOSDEM, and so on) where he’s known for challenging the industry status quo as the “Diabolical Developer.”