Spring Debugger: A New Way To Demystify Spring Boot's Magic by Marco Behler

🚀 Join us and discover how the Spring Debugger turns “Spring Boot magic” into Spring Boot mastery.

📅 Date: 23rd September 2025
📡 Virtual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miy0-euhIRY&ab_channel=vJUG
🕒 Timing:
10:00 AM (PT) | 5:00 PM (UTC) | 6:00 PM (BST): Live stream kicks off
10:10 AM (PT) | 5:10 PM (UTC) |6:10 PM (BST): Session by Haoyi Li
11:00 AM (PT) | 6:00 PM (UTC) |7:00 PM (BST): That’s a wrap, live stream ends

Spring Debugger: A New Way To Demystify Spring Boot's Magic

Throughout history, the term "magic" has described things we don’t fully understand. But magic isn’t real - it’s just a gap in knowledge.

So, when someone says, "Spring Boot is magic", the IntelliJ IDEA team hears, "We should make the IDE reveal what's really happening behind the scenes".

With the new Spring Debugger in IntelliJ IDEA, you’ll get simple, clear & actionable insights into questions such as:

• Where does a specific property value come from? Why does it hold an unexpected value?
• Is there an active transaction? Who started it, and when?
• What database is my application currently connected to? Can I get 1-click access to it?
• What bean implementations are being used and why?
• And many more...

Join this talk to see how Spring Debugger helps you replace "magic" with understanding for your own Spring Boot applications —so you can diagnose and resolve issues faster than ever.

Speaker
Marco Behler, Team Lead - Java Developer Advocacy
Marco works as a developer advocate at JetBrains, in Munich, Germany. He loves to share everything he knows about writing and building awesome software – knowledge he acquired from a decade of consulting in the Java and Spring ecosystems – through guides, tweets, books and talks.

Host
Marit van Dijk, Java Developer Advocate
Marit van Dijk is a software developer, Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains. With over 20 years of experience in IT, she is passionate about building great software with awesome people, and making developers’ lives better. She is a contributor to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).

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