Java Collections: The Force Awakens

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

Java open source developers managed to the see the previously secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the JAVA™ COLLECTIONS FRAMEWORK.

Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters investigate the performance of the Empire’s most popular weapons: LinkedList, ArrayList and HashMap. In addition, they investigate common developer errors and bugs to help protect their vital software. With this new found knowledge they strike back!

Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, JDuchess races home aboard her JVM, investigating proposed future changes to the Java Collections and other options such as Immutable Collections which could save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy....

Richard Warburton is an empirical technologist and solver of deep-dive technical problems and works independently as a Software Engineer and Trainer. He has written a book on Java 8 Lambdas for O’Reilly and helps developers learn via http://iteratrlearning.com (http://iteratrlearning.com/) and http://www.pluralsight.com/author/richard-warburton . He’s worked as a developer in diverse areas including Low Latency Trading Systems, Statistical Analytics, Static Analysis, Compilers and Network Protocols. He is a leader in the London Java Community. Richard is also a well known conference speaker, having talked at Devoxx, JavaOne, QCon SF, JFokus, Devoxx UK, Geecon, Oredev, JAX London, JEEConf, Codemotion, JProfessionals and Voxxed Days Luxembourg. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Warwick.

Raoul-Gabriel Urma obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He is co-author of the bestselling book Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-styleprogramming published by Manning.

In addition, Raoul has written over 10 peer-reviewed articles and given over 50 technical talks at international conferences. He has worked for large companies such as Google, eBay, Oracle, and Goldman Sachs, as well as for several startup projects.

** If you are interested in reading articles and training courses by Raoul and Richard, check out their website:

http://iteratrlearning.com (http://iteratrlearning.com/)

Agenda:

6:15 Doors open

6:30 Talk starts

Some of us will be chatting at the bar after the event. Please join us!

**Have you got a lightning talk for the community? Please contact Maggie Cranford directly if you'd like to kick of the evening by delivering a short talk of you own!

*Please note this is an LJC event. Skills Matter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance - it is essential that you confirm your place at this link: https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/8428-java-collections-the-force-awakens

Event organised by the awesome folk at RecWorks - check out the blog here: http://blog.recworks.co.uk/ (http://recworks.co.uk/)

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