S04E04 - Java and the Blockchain, Microservices with Event Sourcing, RxJava

Agenda

• 18:00 - Welcome drinks and food

• 18:30 Conor Svensson - Introducing web3j (https://github.com/web3j/web3j), the Java library for integrating with the Ethereum blockchain.

In this talk Conor will be providing an overview of what blockchain is, how the Ethereum blockchain works, and how you can deploy and interact with smart contracts on Ethereum, all from within the JVM, thanks to web3j.

Conor is the author of web3j (https://github.com/web3j/web3j) and CTO of Othera (https://www.othera.com.au/).

• 19:15 break

• 19:30-20:00 Boris Kravtsov - Microservice Architecture with Event Sourcing

The talk is about CQRS, Event Sourcing, DDD and there will be a demo of Spring Boot and GemFire.

Boris is a Senior Solutions Architect at Pivotal

• 20:00-20:45 - James Gorman - Practical RxJava

In this session James Gorman will guide us into the world of Rx. When to use it, how to use it, some of the libraries around it, etc. Time to brush up your FP skills!

James is a Tech Lead and Doer of Things at Trunk Platform (http://trunkplatform.com/)

• 21:00 - End