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Pickles & Spores: Improving Distributed Prog. in Scala
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Summary
Heather Miller presents attempts at better supporting distributed programming in Scala, including a new fast pickling framework designed for Scala, as well as Spores - composable pieces of mobile functional behaviour.
Bio
Heather Miller has been a member of the Scala team, and a PhD student under Martin Odersky since 2011. Alongside of her research which touches on providing better language support for distributed programming, and deterministic abstractions for parallel and concurrent programming, she is a regular contributor to Scala she was on the team that designed Scala's Futures & Promises.
About the conference
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.
Jan 23, 2014