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Running a Startup on Haskell

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Summary

Bryan O'Sullivan presents a case study of a small startup that chose Haskell for its server-side code, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of using Haskell to quickly create a solid solution.

Bio

Bryan O’Sullivan is an Irish hacker, writer, and entrepreneur who lives in San Francisco. He has written books on leading-edge topics in distributed systems and functional programming, including “Mercurial: The Definitive Guide” and the Jolt award winner “Real World Haskell”. Most recently, he cofounded and is CTO of MailRank, a San Francisco email productivity company.

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Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.

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Oct 31, 2011

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