April 2016 - Kafka and OrientDB

Kafka! Where have you been all my life?! - Ducas Francis

In the messaging world Apache Kafka is so hot right now. You'll often hear it described as a pub/sub system, but it's soooo much more! Getting started can be quite overwhelming with all the terminology that gets thrown around - producers, consumers, topics, partitions, offsets, replication, commits, balancing, compaction - the list goes on.

But don't be scared… Ducas can help you cut through the noise to understand what it is, how it works, and most importantly, why you as a .NET techie should care.

Something About OrientDB - Abdo Mohamed

OrientDB is a "second generation GraphDB" that offers both Graph and Document database functionality. In the words of Abdo...

Have you heard before about OrientDB ? No, don't worry you will learn something about. In this talk will be going through the following points:

• What/Why OrientDB?
• What does a multi-model database mean?
• OrientDB basic concepts.
• Going through sample queries and the OrientDB API
• OrientDB vs Neo4j.

By the end of this talk you will know why OrientDB could be your next NoSQL candidate