Java is 20 years old, for the better part of these 20 years it has been the most popular programming language in the world. During this presentation we will take a trip in time with the Java language from the days the three weren't decent collections to the days of Streams, Optional and functional Java programming

Functional Programming is becoming trendy. The functionaljava library provides utilities for functional programming in Java. In this session we'll discuss what functional programming is and what functionaljava has to offer us in this area

Akka is a popular framework for dealing with concurrent and distributed applications. In this session we'll get into Akka and see how we can leverage the Actor model to create robust and distributed applications

Java 8 introduced many new features (e.g., Lamdas, Streams) and some see it as a competition to Scala. In this presentation we’ll dive into the differences and compare between Scala and Java8. We'll also look at what's going to happen in the next version of both Java and Scala

Big Data is everywhere. The Spark framework in gaining popularity for dealing with Big Data on top of Hadoop. In this session we'll provide introduction to Spark, its benefits over plain Hadoop and discuss Core Spark, Streaming, Spark SQL and GraphX

Among the topics

 Introduction to Scala

 Basic Syntax

High Order Functions

Case Classes

Basic Pattern Matching

Collections

For Expressions Overview

Implicits Overview

Introduction to Hadoop & Map/Reduce

Introduction to Spark

Working with RDD

Spark GUI

Overview on Spark Streaming

Overview on Spark SQL

Overview on Spark GraphX