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- This slides shows the programming languages I like. From the mix of languages you can see how using a mixture of languages satisfies my curiousity of thinking differently to solve the same problem
^- Other technologies that are of interest to me that I am looking forward to talking about are akka, kafka, apache nifi and Spark
- All of these technologies I have used and do have some level of experience, so I will be sharing my learnings and as well as sharing my journey to learn more about them
- Akka and my interest in the Actor model was the reason I learned Scala in the first place long time ago. I had a lot of fun building ingestion pipelines processing large amounts of data and learning about distributed systems as part of this.
- I was lucky enough to be an earlier adopter of Kafka. In fact when I first used Kafka the project I was leading was one of Confluent's first beta testers for their Confluent Cloud product where I had the chance to give feedback to some of the awesome product people at Confluent. Apache Kafka is really enjoyeable to use when designing event driven reactive systems so looking forward to having a lot of fun with content about it.
- Apache Nifi is a piece of wonderful technology that I am hoping to produce a lot of content for. I have always been surprised by the lack of attention Nifi gets considering how good it is at the problems it solves. I am hoping to bridge that gap.
^- I have been a FOSS/OSS user and enthusiast since the 1990s. An actual user of a linux desktop for over 10 years before switching to macOs
- I like using as much FOSS and fediverse products where I can
- Irony here, as I am an Apple Fan boy too
- There is not enough knowledge sharing and evangelising of whats available to you in the FOSS/Fediverse world. Let alone how to use it. I am hoping to bridge this gap with content that will show you whats available to you and how to use it.