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In a couple of weeks, we’re going to be joined by Sander Mak for his Java presentations ‘Modules or Microservices’ and ‘Migrating to Java Modules’. For those of you not familiar with Sander, he is a Fellow at Luminis in the Netherlands; he is also a Java Champion, conference speaker and author of the O’Reilly […]

Believe it or not, we’re preparing for our last event of 2018! We’re delighted that we’re going to be joined by Dr Steffen Zschaler (@szschaler) for his talk ‘Rolling Your Own: Domain-Specific Languages in Java’. Domain-specific languages, DSLs, or “little languages” as they’re sometimes known, can have great benefits for making your source code more […]

There’s just over a week to go until our next meetup, ‘Banking in the Cloud: Ultra-High Reliability Architectures’ with guest speaker Jason Maude (@jasonmaude). For those of you not familiar with Jason, he’s a coder, coach, debater and public speaker. He has over a decade of experience working in the financial sector, primarily in creating […]

Ahead of her ‘Journeys to Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea and Emergencies’ talk next week, we were fortunate enough to chat to Nicki Watt (@techiewatt) about what we can expect from the event. For those of you who don’t know Nicki, she is the CTO at OpenCredo where she helps organisations to embrace, build and […]

Next week it’s our Introduction to Stream Processing event in conjunction with Hazelcast and the Hazelcast Joint User Group. At the session Neil Stevenson, Senior Solution Architect at Hazelcast will discuss ‘Easy and Fast Stream Processing’. In this session we’ll learn all about directed acyclic graph (DAG) and why it’s so powerful for Big Data […]

In anticipation of our ‘Why Devs hate Agile and what to do about it’ talk this November, we caught up with speaker Allan Kelly to gain some insight into the session. First though, for anyone who isn’t familiar with Allan, he helps companies large and small enhance their agility and boost their digital offering. Clients […]

There are just a couple of weeks until our ‘How low can you go? Ultra low latency Java in the real world’ event. We wanted to speak to the presenter Daniel Shaya (@DanielShaya) to find out a bit more about what we can expect. For those who don’t know Daniel, he has been coding in Java […]

We’re getting ready for our Functional Tic-Tac-Toe: Speedrun and Java EE: Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah! Stayin’ Alive! event next week. The first talk of the evening will be Richard Wild presenting ‘Functional Tic-Tac- Toe: Speedrun’. Most of us are familiar with the game tic-tac-toe. It’s frequently used as a coding exercise, to implement the rules of […]

We’re looking forward to welcoming Ray Tsang & Marcus Biel to our meetup on Monday 8th October. It promises to be a jam-packed evening with two talks: ‘Troubleshooting & Debugging Microservices in Kubernetes’ & ‘A Craftsman’s Guide To Designing A Clean Architecture’.  Marcus Biel will be presenting the second talk of the night,  ‘A Craftsman’s Guide To […]