We are pleased to bring you the sixteenth event of the Docklands.LJC; a group within the main London Java Community that focuses on the developer community in and around Docklands each month.

Our two speakers this month are Dr Mohammed Haji from Couchbase and Christos Erotocritou from Apache Ignite

As the spaces are limited, places will be preferentially allocated to those who have attended previously and first-timers; those with a low attendance record may be removed.

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Arrive from 18:20, talks will begin promptly at 18:30. Attendees arriving after 18:40 will not be admitted.

The programme is as follows:

• 6:20 pm Doors open

• 6:25pm Introductions

• 6:30pm Speaker One and Q& A session. Approx 60 min in total

• 7:30pm Speaker Two and Q & A session. Approx 60 min in total

• 8:30pm Wrap up & beer at Davy's, our official watering hole

Nearest coffee shop – Café Brera, One Canada Square, Cabot Place, if you arrive early.

Dr Mohammed Haji - Couchbase Overview in Financial Services.

Couchbase is one of the leading NoSQL document database with a distributed architecture for performance, scalability, and availability. It enables developers to build applications easier and faster by leveraging the power of SQL with the flexibility of JSON.

Many financial services companies are now harnessing the power of Couchbase and are using it for a wide spectrum of use cases. This ranges from real time data streaming, 360 degree view of customer and predictive analytics. The talk will cover how Couchbase has helped Financial services companies in improving customer experience and enhancing quality of service

Christos Erotocritou - Apache Ignite

Apache Ignite is a high-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory platform for computing and transacting on large-scale data sets in real-time, orders of magnitude faster than possible with traditional disk-based or flash technologies.

Almost exactly a year ago, Christos presented an intro to Apache Ignite to the Docklands LJC and is back this year for a recap on what has happened during this time and what is planned for the year ahead as part of the product roadmap. During this session you’ll learn about the Apache Ignite project and how it is used to solve some of the most demanding scalability and performance challenges specifically within the finacial services vertical. This is a great opportunity to meet one of the leading GridGain architects and thought leader within the IMC space and ask your questions.

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Dr Mohammed Haji is a Senior Solution Architect within EMEA at Couchbase. He has worked extensively on large distributed, low latency high throughput mission critical applications. This ranges from investment banks, government, civil aviation, instant credit card fraud detection, and online gaming. He has helped many institutes that were facing constant down time, performance degradation to being the most highly performing and able to handle large major calendar events such as the Grand National, Cheltenham, Cyber Monday and Black Friday.

He is an international expert subject matter in Grid computing (High Performance Computing) and Big Data with a PhD in this area. He has published in numerous international conferences such as IEEE, Oxford press journals, and industry magazines. Also recently he is a co-author of a book called “Pro Couchbase Base Server”. Mohammed has also worked and developed many computational algorithms such as machine learning, resources acquisition and securing resources on demand, with the invention of the three phase commit protocol.

Christos Erotocritou (https://twitter.com/ChrisErotocritu) is the principal solutions architect for GridGain in EMEA. Having worked as a software engineer and architect both in consulting services and a number of software companies specialising in high-performance in-memory computing he has hands-on experience with a broad range of technologies as well as use cases across a number of industry verticals. He has a passion and motivation for solving complex problems and finding new innovative ways to use technology. He is a subject matter expert in in-memory computing and Big Data with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence. He has been an active speaker for a number of years promoting various technologies and concepts at a range of international conferences and is an active Apache Ignite evangelist.

His key areas of expertise and interest include In-memory computing, data grids, distributed systems, NoSQL, cloud applications & orchestration, service automation, DevOps, IoT, Middleware, Highly-Scalable Systems, Continuous Integration, Ultra-Low-latency Systems, Raspberry Pi, Arduino.