Some people say we can get rid of software education altogether. But is that true?

In this episode of SELECT STAR, I sat down with Java Champion and Spring Developer Advocate Dan Vega. He shares why fundamentals matter more than ever.

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Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He was the lead developer for Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services, contributed to multiple Spring projects, and authored several books including Learning Spring Boot and 12 Rules for Pro Coders.

Felipe Gutierrez has over 25 years of experience as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate, consultant, and instructor. He has authored multiple Apress titles including Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow.

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Cockroach Labs builds resilient, scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. Its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, helps organizations scale when others fail.

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