190. WrocławJug & Hazelcast

Talk 1:

Speaker: Grzegorz Piwowarek

Title: Hazelcast - a Journey from a Cache to a Cloud-Native Revolution

Abstract: Hazelcast became popular as a Java-oriented caching solution. However, over the years it became much more than that. In this presentation, we’ll have a look at what happened with Hazelcast and take a glimpse at what’s yet to come.

Bio: Grzegorz Piwowarek is a lead architect at Hazelcast, a trainer, and a blogger at 4comprehension.com. Loves distributed systems, internals, performance, and architecture. There are rumours that he exists only at compile-time.

Talk 2:

Speaker: Fawaz Ghali

Title: Effective Real-time Stream Processing Made Easy with Hazelcast

Abstract: Real-time stream processing is growing exponentially in recent years, businesses need to gather insights from real-time data as soon as it’s generated. To do this, developers and software architects use various pipelines and tools to capture and process data in motion. Real-time stream processing has its own challenges such as windowing, event time and late events, streaming fault tolerance, and processing guarantees. Hazelcast provides an effective solution for real-time stream processing, the talk will cover best practices for real-time stream processing, focusing on performance and simplicity.

Bio: Fawaz Ghali is a Developer Advocate at Hazelcast with 20+ years’ experience in software developments, machine learning and real-time intelligent applications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has worked in the private sector as well as Academia as a Researcher and Senior Lecturer. He has published over 46 scientific papers in the fields of machine learning and data science. His strengths and skills lie within the fields of low latency applications, IoT & Edge, distributed systems and cloud technologies.