A personal recap of JEEConf 2016 in Kiev by a first-time conference speaker. Covers highlights from attended talks including JVM performance tuning at Twitter, reactive programming with RxJava, and the author's own sessions on JUnit 5 and Java 9. Also reflects on the developer community, networking with engineers from Google, Twitter, Oracle, and JetBrains, impressions of Kiev as a city, and feedback on conference organization including a note on the lack of gender diversity among speakers.
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