Nicolas Fränkel

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also double as a teacher in universities and higher education schools, a trainer and triples as a book author.

 

Stream Processing Essentials Training

Day 3 - 12th Dec 10:00-14:00 Hall 8.1 (Master Class 1) Advanced Nicolas Fränkel, Vladimir Schreiner

Take your first steps to understanding and start working with stream processing! By the end of the course, you will be able to build and run distributed streaming pipelines in Java:

  • Explain when to use streaming
  • Design a streaming application from the building blocks
  • Transform, match, correlate and aggregate continuous data
  • Scale, deploy, and operate streaming apps

We will also cover the advantages and disadvantages of the stream processing technologies available when approaching real-world problems.

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Designing a DSL with Kotlin

Day 2 – 11th Dec 15:20-16:10 Hall 3.1 #J2D Advanced Novice

Kotlin is one of those “new” JVM languages that are currently rocking the boat. Although it’s made a great impact on Android, it’s equally good on the server side. As Domain-Specific Languages are constrained by the language they run on, Kotlin frees developers from Java fluent builders to propose something better.

Using the Vaadin web framework as an example, I’ll demo how one could design its own DSL with Kotlin.

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