A meeting of the minds for the startup founders and engineers leveraging Scala to build great startups. Scala allows for distributed data processing and type safe web development, making it possible to build a whole startup in a type safe, functional, test-driven way. Let's discuss how we do it!

This group is sponsored and organized by GridGain Systems - the guys that develop GridGain day in and day out. We welcome anyone who's interested in high performance distributed application written in Java and Scala.

This is a meetup for Bay Area users of Spark (www.spark-project.org), the high-speed Scala-based cluster programming framework. We'll be rotating among locations in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Berkeley. We'll also discuss other Spark-related projects, including the Hive-on-Spark port (Shark), and other new programming tools for big data. The meetup will include introductions to the various Spark features, case studies from current users, best practices for deployment and tuning, and futur …

Learn about important new technologies in the Java ecosystem: Java, Scala, Groovy, frameworks, tools, etc. We meet on the third wednesday of the month in downtown Oakland. The agenda is typically:  6.30pm-7pm - networking and pizza 7pm-9pm - presentation and Q&A Its a great opportunity to  learn new technologies; network with other developers; and discover job opportunities.  

Parse (http://www.parse.com) is hosted solution and framework which allows mobile developers to instantiate a server stack, database schema, and query APIs automagically. Yes, automagically, as in not having to know how to shh into a remote server for sys admin stuff; no Ruby/PHP/Python/Java/Scala etc or their associated frameworks; no db such as mysql, nosql, or anysql.  On the client side you also don't have to worry about server comm or caching into a local db such as Core Data or sqlite. If …

Do you contribute to https://github.com/cloudfoundry Or push apps to http://www.cloudfoundry.com/? Or just want to know about the future of PaaS? This is the right community for you.

Our site is finally live.  You should really go over there and learn more about us. We are the largest community of technically minded people in the SF Bay area focused on founding startups. Our events are the port of entry for founders moving to Silicon Valley. We are EntrepreNerdial Outfitters. We are building systems for startups to get peer review, and connect with investors via Angel Office Hours. Startups who have successfully gone through Angel Office Hours can be invited to the Co-op, ou …