Pragmatic Clojure Performance Testing

Featuring Korny Sietsma

Knuth said it first: ""97% of the time, premature optimisation is the root of all evil"". And it's become a mantra: ""You aren't going to need it - Don't worry about speed - wait until we performance test and then tweak the slow parts"". But...

Industrial Experiences Transitioning to Functional Programming

Featuring Korny Sietsma

This talk covers 3 different functional programmers’ experiences applying Functional Programming in industrial settings; A product company improving their process and success, a new team with new projects, and a team performing experiments with multiple implementations using FP and non-FP...

Industrial Experiences Transitioning to Functional Programming

Featuring Korny Sietsma

This talk covers 3 different functional programmers’ experiences applying Functional Programming in industrial settings; A product company improving their process and success, a new team with new projects, and a team performing experiments with multiple implementations using FP and non-FP...

Industrial Experiences Transitioning to Functional Programming

Featuring Korny Sietsma

This talk covers 3 different functional programmers’ experiences applying Functional Programming in industrial settings; A product company improving their process and success, a new team with new projects, and a team performing experiments with multiple implementations using FP and non-FP...

Promoting Functional Programming in the Enterprise, A Parallel Development Approach

Featuring Korny Sietsma

Many people recognise the value of Functional Programming, but there are always barriers to getting it adopted in the workplace. In this talk I will cover the approach we took to introduce functional programming at a financial services company.

We ran a 3 week exercise, developing a small part of...