Jason Clark

Jason Clark

Jason Clark is a principal engineer and architect at New Relic where he has worked on everything from Ruby instrumentation libraries to container orchestration platforms. He was previously an architect at WebMD building .Net-based web services.

A regular conference speaker, Jason contributes to the open-source project Shoes, aiming to make GUI programming easy and fun for beginners and students.

books by Jason Clark

Safer Kotlin
  • October 2026
  • ISBN 9781638359241
  • 112 pages
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / Java

Get a targeted tour of Kotlin techniques you can put to work on the JVM in this free ebook. Across four chapters from Manning books, you’ll see how Kotlin streamlines familiar programming tasks, learns how to catch many potential null errors during compilation, and works alongside existing Java code. You’ll also explore how to retain error details with Either and Result and use generated inputs to test whether program properties hold. If you’re a developer who wants to write Kotlin code with clearer handling of values, failures, and tests, this curated collection is your practical next step.

The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition
  • October 2022
  • ISBN 9781617298875
  • 704 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / Java
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With The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition you will go beyond feature descriptions and learn how Java operates at the bytecode level. Master high-value techniques for concurrency and performance optimization, along with must-know practices for build, test, and deployment. You’ll even look at alternate JVM languages like Kotlin and Clojure. Digest this book and stand out from the pack.