1st Annual X-Mas Party & Presentations at MSFT Reactor San Francisco

1st Annual Christmas Party and Special Event for San Francisco Java User Group, sponsored by Red Hat, Logic 2020, DataStax, and Microsoft!
This is a special in person event.

Happy Holidays and let's get the Bay Area Java Folks together and start a new tradition! Food and beverage is limited to 50 people, and the venue will be limited to 100 max, so it's 1st come first serve at the door.

Your RSVP to this meetup, your ID, and VACCINATION CARDS WILL BE REQUIRED to enter the premises.

Join via zoom at 6:30pm for presentations:
https://datastax.zoom.us/j/99448248040

6:00-6:30 Catering courtesy of Slippery Fish Catering and Red Hat
6:30-7:15 - Microservices with Quarkus.io, Eric Deandrea, Red Hat
7:15-8:00 - ACID transactions in Cassandra 5.0, Patrick McFadin, DataStax
8:00pm - 10:00pm - Drinks, Music and Social / Networking time

Microservices with Quarkus
As interest grows in microservices and containers, Java developers have struggled to make applications smaller and faster to meet today’s demands and requirements. In the modern computing environment, applications must respond to requests quickly and efficiently, be suitable for running in volatile environments such as containers, and support rapid development. Because of this, Java, and popular Java runtimes, are sometimes considered inferior to runtimes in other languages such as Node.js and Go. With additions to Java and Java frameworks over the past few years, Java can proudly retain its role as the primary language for enterprise applications. Quarkus is one such framework that has taken the Java community by storm. Quarkus combines developer productivity and joy with the speed and performance of Go. This session will introduce some of these challenges while showcasing the unique approach Quarkus employs to achieve its Supersonic startup speed and Subatomic memory footprint on the JVM, all while providing Java developers the killer developer productivity capabilities they have been longing for.

ACID transactions in Apache Cassandra®
Are you in this camp? "I can't use Cassandra because it doesn't have transactions." Have you heard about CEP-15, featuring a new consensus protocol called Accord? This proposal is to add fully ACID compliant global transactions to Apache Cassandra. Well, that's going to change everything! Let's talk about how it will work and how it will change the way you use Cassandra:

• A user view of how Accord enables global transactions
• Changes in CQL Syntax
• Examples of how it could be used in your application

About the Speakers:
Eric Deandrea is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat.
Patrick McFadin is Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra at DataStax.