UPDATE: The event has been canceled due to high possibility of inclement weather. We're looking to reschedule James Ward's talk in early 2017.
Join Nike Digital for the next event in our Nike Tech Talks series on Thursday, December 8th! This month we're excited to have James Ward, Principal Platform Evangelist at Salesforce.com, give a talk on Building Modern Data Pipelines. Food and beverages will be served and there will be time to network before and after the talk.
JAMES WARD | PRINCIPAL PLATFORM EVANGELIST | SALESFORCE.COM | @_JamesWard
ABOUT THE TALK:
Our modern systems are no longer just simple CRUD apps. We now need to deal with massive, distributed, real-time data systems that ingest potentially terabytes of data, support real-time and batch analytics, do machine learning, and support a host of web and mobile app interfaces. This session will walk through architectural patterns and technologies for building these modern data pipelines. You will learn about Apache Kafka, a variety of databases, and data processing frameworks like Spark.
ABOUT JAMES:
James Ward is a Principal Platform Evangelist at Salesforce.com. James frequently presents at conferences around the world such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and many other Java get-togethers. Along with Bruce Eckel, James co-authored First Steps in Flex. He has also published numerous screencasts, blogs, and technical articles. Starting with Pascal and Assembly in the 80’s, James found his passion for writing code. Beginning in the 90’s he began doing web development with HTML, Perl/CGI, then Java. After building a Flex and Java based customer service portal in 2004 for Pillar Data Systems he became a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. In 2011 James became a Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com where he taught developers how to deploy apps on the cloud with Heroku. From Fall 2012 to Spring 2014, James was a Developer Advocate at Typesafe where he created Typesafe Activator and led the Reactive Software vision. James tweets as @_JamesWard and posts code at github.com/jamesward.
