Gambling With Leopards by Ben Evans

We are delighted to welcome a very special guest from London Ben Evans

Gambling With Leopards from Ben Evans

This is a fairly light-hearted talk, where I provide an experience report of a real application - BetLeopard - which is a reference implementation of an open-source horse racing engine.

I use it to show case some different ways of approaching a calcuation problem - first by using Java 8 lambdas, then by using Hazelcast IMDG with Apache Spark for processing and then again with Hazelcast Jet.

It covers processing techniques, some domain design, serialization as well as showing how to get started with Spark and Jet.

About Ben Evans

Ben Evans is an author, entrepreneur, consultant and educator. His career highlights to date include: co-founding jClarity, a performance startup; Chief Architect for Listed Derivatives at Deutsche Bank; performance testing the Google IPO; creating award-winning websites for some of Hollywood’s biggest hits of the 90s; building multibillion dollar low-latency trading systems; and utilising technology to help some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

He helps run the London Java Community, and represents the user community on Java’s governing body, the JCP Executive Committee. He is a Java Champion and 3-time JavaOne Rock Star Speaker.

Pizzas pizzas will be available on the night, sponsored by GuruTeam