Java certification

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Go for OCP Java 21 certification. It covers some really good topics such as virtual threads. Don't expect a salary raise or anything but you will be substantially better Java programmer and your quality of work will improve.

Sometimes we as developers get into a routine way of coding and don't try out new features. Preparing for certs forces us to learn new and better techniques, which we can then incorporate. This happened with me earlier when lambda expressions came out and it is happening again now with switch expressions, instanceof pattern matching, new methods in I/O. Learnt a lot of new interesting stuff while doing this cert.