Track: Head-to-Tail Functional Languages
Location:
- Windsor, 5th flr.
Day of week:
- Monday
Free-range Monads, Tackling immutablity, tales from production, and more...
by Jonathan Graham
Software Developer @8thLightInc and Co-Founder @MinedMinds
Note: This talk replaces a cancellation for Creating a distuptive property portal with Clojure.
Every language has many pre-defined core functions, so we can quickly get on building what we really want. This ease of use does come with a cost, though. Do we really know the power of the magic that we are wielding? In this presentation we will look at how to implement our own versions of the Clojure functions reduce, count, filter, map and pmap. The pace will start...
by Aaron Bedra
Chief Security Officer @Eligible & former member of Clojure/Core
We spend quite a bit of time (or should) testing the systems that we build. Early on in a systems life this time is spent creating tests and exploring the structure and design of our systems. As systems age the majority of this time is spent maintaining those tests as the system takes new shapes. Our approach to testing heavily impacts how much time is necessary to keep our tests in line and useful.
This talk will focus on an approach to testing that focuses on describing your system...
by Richard Kasperowski
Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness
Open Space
by Andrea Magnorsky
Currently @Workday, programming language enthusiast and founding member of FSSF
F#, just like other non-pure functional languages, allows you find the sweet spot between FP practices and OO language pragmatism. Most of the advanced features of F# give you the power to change the language and to introduce a higher level of abstraction to your code. In this talk, we will discuss active patterns, computation expressions, parsers, using type providers and more. These language features help you make your code simpler and easier to maintain.
by Richard Dallaway
Co-author of "'Essential Slick", Author of "the Lift Cookbook"
There's a perception that Scala is too complicated.
In part that may come from cryptic compiler errors and hard to understand types.
You might be left wondering: what's the point?
Why am I trying to hack my way through cruft?
1. There's a way of writing simple Scala. A few straightforward ideas can be used again and again.You're using the power and flexibility of Scala, but in a sane way. This might not be the Scala you've heard about.
2. The type system enables...
by Runar Bjarnason
Author of Functional Programming in Scala
Scalaz-Stream (soon to be called "FS2" or "Functional Streams for Scala") is a library that lets us write compositional, modular, safe, and efficient asynchronous I/O using an expressive purely functional API. In this hands-on talk we'll see how to get started with the library, cook up some examples, and look at how we can combine functional streams into large distributed systems.
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday, 7 March
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Back to Java
What to expect in Java 9 and Spring 5
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Stream Processing @ Scale
Big data, fast-moving data. Practical implementation lessons on Real-time Data
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DevOps & CI/CD
Lessons/stories on optimizing the deployment pipeline
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Head-to-Tail Functional Languages
Free-range Monads, Tackling immutability, tales from production, and more...
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Architecting for Failure
Your system will fail. Take control before it takes you with it
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21st Century Culture from Geeks on the Ground
New ways to organise technology companies and workplace culture
Tuesday, 8 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
In-depth technical case studies from giants like: Microsoft, Netflix, Google, Twitter, and more...
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Close to the Metal
Get efficiency back into your code, concepts like: cache efficient algorithm and lock free data structures
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Containers (in production)
Real-world lessons on scalability and reliability in production container deployments
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Modern CS in the real world
Real-world Industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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Security, Incident Response & Fraud Detection
Master-level classes on building security into your system and responding to incidents when things go wrong.
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Optimizing You
Keeping life in balance is always a challenge. Learning lifehacks
Wednesday, 9 March
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Disrupting Finance
Technology advances in finance (blockchain, P2P, Machine Learning, API's)
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Modern Native Languages
Modern native languages: Safe efficiency with Go, Rust, Swift
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Full Stack Javascript
Level up Javascript with topics like Angular, React/ReactNative, Node, Mongo/Couch/Other, Falcor, GraphQL, etc
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Data Science & Machine Learning Methods
A developer's data science and machine learning toolkit
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Microservices for Mega-Architectures
Practical lessons on Microservices success.
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Modern Agile Development
Revisiting Agile today and tackling challenges we are seeing in the wild