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Remote Access Made Easy and Fast with Haskell
Simon Marlow explains how to use Haxl to automatically batch and overlap requests for data from multiple data sources.
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SQL Strikes Back! Recent Trends in Data Persistence and Analysis
Dean Wampler takes a look at SQL’s resurgence and specific example technologies, including: NewSQL, Hybrid SQL, SQL abstractions on top of file-based data, SQL as a functional programming language.
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Comparing Elasticity of Reactive Frameworks
Elasticity is a key component in reactive systems and James Ward navigates the different characteristics of different implementations of this concept: Akka, Scala, RxJava, and more.
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Building Reactive Services using Functional Programming
Rachel Reese sees reactive services and functional languages as a natural pair, demonstrating how functional concepts such as mailboxes and async workflows can help one craft reactive services.
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Phosphor: Illuminating Dynamic Data Flow in Commodity JVMs
Jonathan Bell & Gail Kaiser introduce Phosphor, a dynamic taint tracking system for the JVM, describing the approach used to achieve portable taint tracking.
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Let It Crash! The Erlang Approach to Building Reliable Services
Brian Troutwine examines how functional programming and other concepts championed by Erlang can yield reactive services with just a change in thinking and a different approach to design.
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Functional Systems @ Twitter
Marius Eriksen explains Twitter's experiences with functional programming (with Scala) @ Twitter: where functional techniques worked and where not. Also: how the Scala language has scaled with Twitter
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Panel: The Challenges of Using Functional Languages
Panelists discuss which issues have an impact on the adoption of functional languages, hear how our speakers have addressed these issues and of course we'll have time for a Q&A.
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Why Spark Is the Next Top (Compute) Model
Dean Wampler argues that Spark/Scala is a better data processing engine than MapReduce/Java because tools inspired by mathematics, such as FP, are ideal tools for working with data.
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Reactive APIs in Spray, Akka and Scala
Jan Machacek demos creating and using reactive APIs in Scala with Spray and Akka.
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Functional Principles for Object-Oriented Developers
Jessica Kerr explains through Java and C# code samples six principles of the functional programming style.
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The Functional Programming Concepts in Facebook's Mobile Apps
Adam Ernst shows how his team at Facebook encountered spiraling complexities and declining reliability and decided to make the shift to functional, in the data model and the view layer of News Feed.
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