To the Pub

If you're dead on your feet and want to skip straight to the pub, from 6PM we'll be opening up the bar (see programme for location details).

Easy and Efficient Data Validation with Cats - Beginner

Featuring Daniela Sfregola

Often when you create a client/server application, you need to validate the requests: can the user associated to the request perform this operation? Can they access or modify the data? Is the input well-formed?

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How I learned to stop worrying and love the frontend - Intermediate

Featuring Otto Chrons

Scala.js brought Scala to web frontend development, relieving developers from many of the idiosyncrasies of JavaScript. As library support for Scala.js keeps maturing, it is becoming a very solid environment for real full-stack web development.

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Can ScalaC be 10 times faster? - Intermediate

Featuring Rory Graves

Performance of the Scala compiler is a a bugbear for the community and seen by many as a blocker for adoption. Can you make the compiler twice as fast, four times, ten, one hundred? This talk does not contain all the answers, but aims to explore the subject, show current work happening. As well...

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Practical Eff monad for microservices - Advanced

Featuring Eric Torreborre

"These crazy FP concepts are very interesting but how do I apply them to my job at XYZ?" Indeed, it is one thing to learn what a "catamorphism" or a "natural transformation" is, and another one to use it in our daily programming. In this talk you will learn how to...

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Push Your State to the Edge

Featuring Rhys Sharrem

This talk will aim to bridge the gap for beginner functional programmers as to how to introduce functional programming into a code base. The idea is to insert a functional core, and push all state to the edges.

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Scala Services in Action - Beginner

Featuring Kingsley Davies and Sofia Vaughan-Jones

Microservices have become one of the main sweet spots for Scala development teams. What frameworks are out there to make delivery teams more productive? How do the stacks, stack up ? And what are the important factors for comparison?

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Scala.JS in Production

Featuring Roberto Tyley

For the first time at the Guardian there was experimentation using Scala.JS in production: building a CMS frontend in a little green-field project.

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Learn your advanced Akka Streams for great Good! -Intermediate

Featuring Heiko Seeberger

Stream processing has become ubiquitous and Akka Streams, an implementation of the Reactive Streams specification, is one of the hottest kids on the block. In this talk, you will discover the essential basics and then introduce advanced features like cyclic graphs and custom stream processing...

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Lightning Talks Session 2

Featuring Noel Welsh, Rhys Sharrem and Guillaume Masse

This session will consist of three 15-minute Lightning Talks!

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