InfoQ Homepage Functional Programming Content on InfoQ
-
Get Kata
Kevlin Henney discusses a couple of katas and digs deeper into TDD, lambdas, language(s), (dys)functional programming and Alcubierre drive.
/presentations/kata-tdd/en/mediumimage/Kevbig.JPG)
-
Practical Data Synchronization Using CRDTs
Dmitry Ivanov discusses the basic CRDTs implementations in Scala, explaining the advantages of these data structures to solve many synchronization problems as well as their limitations.
/presentations/data-synchronization-crdt/en/mediumimage/Dimbig.JPG)
-
JDK 8: Lessons Learnt with Lambdas and Streams
Simon Ritter starts with a short summary of the key features of both Lambda expressions and streams before moving on to some real world examples of how to use them effectively.
/presentations/java8-lambdas-streams/en/mediumimage/Simonbig.JPG)
-
Adventures in Elm: Events, Reproducibility, and Kindness
Jessica Kerr introduces Elm, focusing on its architecture: how it overturns what is essential in object-oriented and even back-end functional programming.
/presentations/elm-events/en/mediumimage/Jesbig.JPG)
-
Elm: Finding the Functional in Reactive Programming
Claudia Doppioslash discusses some of the useful features of Elm, such as time traveling debugger, immutability, union types, type inference and Functional Reactive Programming.
/presentations/elm-functional-reactive-programming/en/mediumimage/Clabig.JPG)
-
Designing with Passion
Panelists answer questions on the languages they contributed to: How do you organize thoughts and code? What unique advances in usability did your language make? Why do your users love to code in it?
/presentations/panel-erlang-haskell-elm-ruby/en/mediumimage/Panbig.jpg)
-
Why Functional Programming Matters
John Hughes takes a deep dive into the history of functional programming to revisit a personal selection of highlights.
/presentations/functional-history-highlights/en/mediumimage/Johnbig.JPG)
-
Fault-Tolerant Sensor Nodes with Erlang/OTP and Arduino
Kenji Rikitake discusses using Erlang/OTP for IoT, covering communication protocols, design principles and overcoming hardware limitations for endpoint devices in fault-tolerant systems.
/presentations/iot-erlang-otp-arduino/en/mediumimage/Kebig.JPG)
-
Finally, Object-Oriented Programming without Objection
Noel Welsh discusses the paradigm of the functional programmer, contrasting it with the paradigm of the object-oriented programmer, and considering if it is possible to reconcile the two.
/presentations/oop-functional-programming/en/mediumimage/Nobig.JPG)
-
A CutEr Tool
Kostis Sagonas introduces the idea of concolic unit testing of Erlang programs and the CutEr tool, how it is different, and how it can be used to identify errors in programs in a fully automatic way.
/presentations/cuter/en/mediumimage/Kosbig.JPG)
-
Scala, ECS, and Docker: Delayed Execution @Coursera
Brennan Saeta talks about aspects of Coursera’s architecture that enable them to rapidly build sophisticated features for their learning platform, the use of containers and security-related issues.
/presentations/scala-ecs-docker-coursera/en/mediumimage/Brebig.JPG)
-
An Erlang-Based Philosophy for Service Reliability
Jamshid Mahdavi explains how WhatsApp has developed their server components, the deployment processes, and how they monitor, alert, and repair the inevitable failures in a billion-users service.
/presentations/whatsapp-services/en/mediumimage/Jabig.JPG)