Faster Java Without Pauses For Stream Processing

by Simon Ritter

The Java platform is perfect for addressing the needs of big data and stream processing and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) provides many advantages for developing these types of applications.

Managed memory, which results in garbage collection (GC) pauses that are both non-deterministic and potentially very long often results in traditional JVM deployments designed to alleviate these issues, not solve them.

In this session, we will explain how the Zing JVM from Azul Systems solves the problem of GC as well as providing better overall performance by using the Falcon JIT compiler. Find out how applications running on Zing start fast, go faster and stay fast!

Easy and Fast Stream Processing

by Fuad Malikov

In this session you will learn all about directed acyclic graph (DAG) and why it is so powerful for Big Data processing. We will walk you through the evolution of Big Data computing from sequential to DAG as well as other techniques such as SP/SC, Cooperative Multithreading, Data Locality, In-Memory sources and sinks, and WaitFree algorithms that power the third generation of Big Data processing.

This presentation will also feature an introduction to Hazelcast JET, an Apache 2 licensed, DAG-based platform for in-memory streaming and fast batch processing that illustrates many of the techniques found in a third generation Big Data platform.

We will walk you through coding common tasks in Java and then step it up to writing full-blown applications in less than a hundred lines of Java code, for applications such as Bitcoin, Twitter sentiment analysis and real-time monitoring of worldwide commercial aircraft.

Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO, Azul Systems
Fuad Malikov, Co-Founder & VP of Tech Ops, Hazelcast

Simon Ritter

Deputy CTO, Azul Systems

Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.

Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology from JDK 1.0; he has spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition, he managed the Java Evangelism team for the core Java platform, Java for client applications and embedded Java.

Now at Azul, he continues to help people understand Java as well as Azul's JVM technologies and products. Simon has twice been awarded Java Rockstar status at JavaOne and is a Java Champion. He currently represents Azul on the JCP Executive Committee and on the Expert Group of Java SE 9, 10, 11 and 12.

Fuad Malikov

Co-founder and Vice President of Technical Operations, Hazelcast

Fuad Malikov is a co-founder of Hazelcast and serves as Vice President of Technical Operations. He is dedicated to make Hazelcast users and customers successful. He loves listening to unique customer use-cases and developing scalable solutions to them. Fuad is a frequent speaker at international conferences, as well as local user groups. His employment portfolio includes his time as an IT consultant to the telecommunications sector, an IT architect at IBM and a Java developer.