Pratik Patel
Developer Advocate @ Azul Systems
Pratik Patel is a Java Champion and developer advocate at Azul Systems and has written 3 books on programming (Java, Cloud and OSS). An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's also a co-organizer of the Atlanta Java User Group and North Atlanta JavaScript meetup, frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.
Presentations
Big Data and AI Architecture: Apache Iceberg via Spark and LLMs
Wednesday, 1:30 PM EST
This presentation delves into the potential of integrating LLMs with Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg as part of a Big Data to AI foundational architecture. In this session we’ll explore the potential of combining Iceberg, Spark and LLMs to give you a real world AI architecture that uses your data.
We'll build an AI application that allows users to perform data queries and extract insights from massive datasets using natural language. We'll start with understanding the structure and architecture of a large dataset. Then we'll look at options for querying the dataset using Apache Spark and Trino. Finally, we'll use an LLM to query the dataset using natural language. We'll also look at other uses of LLMs as part of an overall solution, and explore the differences between different LLMs.
We’ll also discuss where event streaming (Kafka and Flink) fit into this architecture. The design of this architecture is meant to be flexible and give your dev team the ability to choose different technologies for the processing and querying. I’ll leave you with a CONCRETE example that you can run on your laptop and explore the possibilities. Again, this will be an example of a real-world application; the dataset used will be for home sales data for the last 15 years.
We will use these technologies:
Apache Iceberg
Apache Spark
Trino
LM Studio for running your own LLM
Books
Visual Developer Java Database Programming with JDBC, 2nd Edition: The Essentials for Developing Databases for Internet and Intranet Applications
by Pratik Patel and Karl Moss
- Java Database Programming with JDBC by Pratik Patel and Karl Moss is an updated edition of the authors' guide to the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) standard for database programming under Java. While the original edition was perhaps geared more to those developers who needed to write their own JDBC database drivers, a fairly arduous task, this new edition provides more background information on database connectivity issues in Java and so will be even more useful to the casual or intermediate programmer. After a general introduction to JDBC and Structured Query Language (SQL), useful even to beginning programmers, the authors start by building a simple database-aware applet. New chapters on "servlets," Java components that run on the server-side and manage database operations, as well as a general discussion of middleware technologies are particularly good. Database access for JavaBean components (from Sun Microsystems JDK 1.1) is also discussed, including working code for two database-aware beans. This book also includes a quick introduction to the Java language (which will only be helpful if you already know C/C++), a detailed reference for the JDBC API, and a working example of a text-based JDBC driver. Though this book is still oriented toward the JDBC driver developer, the authors now provide enough general discussion of JDBC architectural issues to make it worthwhile to any programmer who needs to ramp up on what JDBC is and what capabilities it offers.
Java Database Programming with JDBC: Discover the Essentials for Developing Databases for Internet and Intranet Applications
by Pratik Patel and Karl Moss
- Java Database Programming with JDBC by Pratik Patel and Karl Moss is an updated edition of the authors' guide to the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) standard for database programming under Java. While the original edition was perhaps geared more to those developers who needed to write their own JDBC database drivers, a fairly arduous task, this new edition provides more background information on database connectivity issues in Java and so will be even more useful to the casual or intermediate programmer. After a general introduction to JDBC and Structured Query Language (SQL), useful even to beginning programmers, the authors start by building a simple database-aware applet. New chapters on "servlets," Java components that run on the server-side and manage database operations, as well as a general discussion of middleware technologies are particularly good. Database access for JavaBean components (from Sun Microsystems JDK 1.1) is also discussed, including working code for two database-aware beans. This book also includes a quick introduction to the Java language (which will only be helpful if you already know C/C++), a detailed reference for the JDBC API, and a working example of a text-based JDBC driver. Though this book is still oriented toward the JDBC driver developer, the authors now provide enough general discussion of JDBC architectural issues to make it worthwhile to any programmer who needs to ramp up on what JDBC is and what capabilities it offers.
Java Programming for the Internet: A Guide to Creating Dynamic, Interactive Internet Applications
by Pratik R. Patel, Alan D. Hudson, and Donald A. Ball
- Enables readers to master the Java programming language for internet applications while expanding the scope of online development, and the accompanying CD contains powerful sample applets and a copy of Netscape Navigator. Original. (Intermediate).