Pere Villega
Pere is a software developer originally from Barcelona. Passionate about technology and a Scala fan, he has spent over a decade programming, writing blog posts, and for the last few years has grown an interest on functional programming.
Talks I've Given
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Lightning Talk: MTL in 15 minutes
Featuring Pere Villega
This year MTL (and cats-mtl) have come to the forefront. But, what is MTL? How does it work? And how can it help my codebase? In this lightning talk, you will get an introduction to MTL and an answer to all those questions, so you can start exploring this new technique.
scala cats-mtl scalax mtl -
Lightning Talk: Bridging the Gap Between Front End and Back End
Featuring Pere Villega
Bridges is a library by Dave Gurnell that generates front end code (currently Elm, Typescript, and Flow) from your case classes.
scala library flow typescript elm shapeless front-end -
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Understanding Blockchain
Featuring Kingsley Davies and Pere Villega
Blockchain is the current hype in tech. People believe its impact in companies will be of the same magnitude as the event of internet. But, what is Blockchain itself? In this talk, you will discover a blockchain from scratch, using Scala, to understand its capabilities and limitations. That...
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The Process: using Kafka to drive microservices architecture
Featuring Pere Villega
In this talk we explore an implementation of an event-driven microservices architecture using Scala technologies, including Akka and Kafka.
Use of ‘microservices’ is becoming the standard to implement applications that serve millions of users. But when developing such a system, developers face...
scala microservices