Courses by rockthejvm.com
Cats
We Scala programmers love abstractions and Cats is one of the most popular libraries. At the same time, Cats is notorious for having a steep learning curve. Fun
10 hours 39 minutes 36 seconds
Apache Flink
Apache Flink is a distributed system and computational engine for stateful big data streaming. That was a mouthful. In plain English, Flink is an library that allows you to proc...
8 hours 31 minutes 38 seconds
Scala & Functional Programming for Beginners | Rock the JVM
In this course, we will learn the basics of Scala and functional programming, two highly in-demand topics in software industry today. Write 3000+ lines of Scala code yourself, w...
11 hours 21 minutes 51 seconds
Spark Streaming with Scala
Stream big data in real time with Spark and integrate any data source, from Kafka to Twitter. Your probably know by now: Spark is the most popular computing engine for big data,...
11 hours 17 minutes 52 seconds
rockthejvm.com
Rock the JVM aims to be the go-to resource for learning Scala, Akka, Spark and everything JVM. Everything is battle-tested on yours truly. I'm Daniel Ciocîrlan, a developer and teacher from Bucharest, Romania. I've started Rock the JVM to share everything that I learned through pain, blood, sweat and tears and distill everything in action-packed courses with a smooth learning curve. Since 2013, I've been teaching a variety of programming topics to people all over the world and at every level of the game, from senior engineers processing trillions of data points to 7-year-olds moving spaceships on the screen.
At first, I mastered Java, then I taught it for 3.5 years to university students. I found Scala 7 years ago when a good friend told me about functional collections. I was blown away, and still am to this day as I discover more of the Scala magic. The rabbit hole only went deeper from there: I learned Akka with my own small projects, then Spark and big data while at Palantir. I left Palantir in mid 2019, but it's very likely my old pipelines are still crunching data every day, as we speak.
I hope you enjoy my material - in the meantime, I've just started on Twitter and would love to meet you!
A bit more
I spend most of my time between Scala, Akka and Spark, and I'm really fortunate I get to work with them and teach them to other developers. I love the expressiveness and the concise power of a good technology. I learn from the community and the people I've had in my courses and I love to share back what I've learned. I love to speak at meetups and conferences and I adore people's faces when something really hard "clicks" in their mind and their face lights up. I don't know how people react to my online courses in real time, but I love the "this changed my life" comments.
I've graduated from University Politehnica of Bucharest with a BSc and a MSc in Computer Science. My Bachelor and Master theses were on quantum computation, of all things. That can be explained by the fact that I was really into physics before - I was winning medals at international physics competitions.
When I'm not coding, I dance salsa and bachata and I tend to play an absurd amount of Ed Sheeran on my acoustic guitar.