Kafka for Java Developers & Java Puzzlers (+ Pizza)

This meetup will feature two talks.

1. Kafka for Java Developers by Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov is a Solution Architect at Confluent, the company behind the popular Apache Kafka streaming platform. Previously, Viktor worked at Hazelcast, an open-source IMDG company. Viktor has comprehensive knowledge and expertise in enterprise application architecture leveraging open source technologies and enjoys helping different organizations build low latency, scalable and highly available distributed systems.

He is also co-organizer of Princeton JUG and a co-author of O’Reilly’s “Enterprise Web Development.”

You can find Viktor presenting at conferences ( http://lanyrd.com/gamussa ), blogging ( http://gamov.io ) and producing podcasts “Razbor Poletov” (in Russian) and DevRelRad.io.

Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa.

2. Java Puzzlers NG: The Strange, The Bizarre and the Wonderful

Not sure about you, but working with Java 8 made me lose all of my hair and most of my sleep (or was it the jet lag?). If you still haven’t reached the level of Brian Goetz in mastering lambdas and strings, this session is for you. And if you think you have, here’s some bad news for you: you should attend as well. You’ll see some surprising, bizarre, and inconceivable parts of Java 8, so you won’t be (too) surprised when they hit you in production. Like any other puzzlers session, this one consists lots of puzzling questions, answers from the audience, t-shirts flying around, and a lot of fun—all for one purpose: to make you understand Java 8 better.