Talks and Drinks: ZIO & saving Christmas using Scala 🎄💫

Hi Scala folks!

Join our November event in the heart of Amsterdam to find out how to make zio-kafka faster in 2023 and how to save Christmas using Scala 🙌

🍁 Thursday, November 2
📍dé VakantieDiscounter: Herengracht 262, 1016 BV Amsterdam

Schedule

18:00 Doors open
18:30 Food & drinks
19:00 Talk #1: Making zio-kafka better and faster in 2023
19:30 Break
19:45 Talk #2: Saving Christmas using Scala
20:30 More drinks & wrapping up

Talk #1: Making zio-kafka better and faster in 2023
Erik van Oosten, Data Engineer at Adevinta

In this talk I will share our journey with zio-kafka throughout 2023.
How we made it faster, how we reduced memory usage and how we bumped into the limits of the underlying Java-based Kafka library.
This talk is for you when want to see inside a more complex ZIO project, or when you are interested in getting the max out of Kafka with any asynchronous library.

Talk #2: Saving Christmas using Scala
Jan-Pieter van den Heuvel, Lead Machine Learning Engineer at DHL

Christmas is at stake! The Elves have run into problems (again!) and it is your job to help them and save Christmas. How? By using your Scala programming skills! I’ll explain why Scala is a good fit and give you competing advantage when participating in the Advent of Code.
By discussing my solutions for several problems from Advent of Code 2022 I will touch on the following subjects:

• Introduction of Advent of Code
• Why Advent of Code is good for learning Scala
• Parsing problem input files
• Scala collections library
• Why Scala is a good fit for solving Advent of Code puzzles
• Functional vs. imperative style
• Mutable vs. immutable data structures
• Common pitfalls