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Functional Examples from Category Theory
Alissa Pajer discusses through examples how to understand and write cleaner and more maintainable functional code using the Category Theory.
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Refactoring in Java, Scala, and Clojure
Glen Peterson uses the Expression Problem to compare refactoring in Java, Scala and Clojure, showing how traits minimize changes in Scala when an interface changes and how Clojure avoids some issues.
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Parallel-lazy Performance: Java 8 vs Scala vs GS Collections
Sponsored by Goldman Sachs. Java 8 has Streams, Scala has parallel collections, and GS Collections has ParallelIterables. How well do they perform?
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What Every Hipster Should Know About Functional Reactive Programming
Bodil Stokke demos building a complete video game from nothing in the span of a conference talk using functional reactive programming.
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Hastily Paving the Way for Diversity
Anton Ekblad discusses the Haste Haskell-to-JavaScript compiler, how well JavaScript does as a target language, and how JavaScript could play better with FP compilers.
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Scala: The Good Parts
Jack Singleton discusses how to improve code readability and maintainability in Scala, and how to be productive with Options, Immutability, and the Collections library.
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Building a Trading Platform in 6 Weeks in an Organization That Would Really Rather We Didn't
Lance Walton shares the experience of a small team building a trading platform in 6 weeks in Scala and Lift while fighting against an opposing organizational culture.
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Coding in Style: How to Wield Scala in the Trenches
Josh Suereth discusses Scala: expressions, abstracting behaviors, FP & OOP, Futures & Promises, libraries with implicit classes and value classes, tracking lexical state with implicit values.
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Fault Tolerance 101
Joe Armstrong discusses fault tolerant systems, summarizing the key features of Erlang and showing how they can be used for programming fault-tolerant and scalable systems on multi-core clusters.
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The No-framework Scala Dependency Injection Framework
Adam Warski shows how to replace features of DI containers with plain Scala code using MacWire, and adding interceptors using macros.
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I Want to Believe (not sure yet)
Marc-Daniel Ortega shares code snippets showing how to implement some logic in a functional language inspired by “Functional Programming in Scala”, avoiding the OOP influence.
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Fault Tolerance 101
Joe Armstrong discusses how fault tolerance relates to scalability and concurrency, and how Erlang helps build fault-tolerant systems on multi-core clusters.
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