Jet
Jet
Launched in 2015, Jet.com is a new kind of marketplace that reimagines online shopping from the ground up. Founded on three simple values – trust, transparency and fairness – Jet is powered by a smart technology that creates more value for everyone, finding innovative ways to pull costs out of the supply chain and, together with its retailer and brand partners, shares those savings with shoppers. We're heavy users of F#, and have based our architecture around Azure-based event-driven functional microservices.
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A journey into the F# compiler
Featuring Steffen Forkmann
Compilers have always been seen as fascinating black magic that can only be understood after long studies at university. Since the F# compiler was made open source you are now able to take a deeper look into that black magic, see all it facets and you can even change it.
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Keynote: Deep Learning with CNTK and F#
Featuring Mathias Brandewinder
Deep Learning is a powerful and mysterious sounding Machine Learning technique. It is based on neural networks, and has shown impressive results in areas as different as computer vision, speech recognition, or automated language translation. And, with the recent release of the Microsoft Cognitive...
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Distributed Tracing, Lessons Learned
Featuring Gina Marie Maini
Industry standards like OpenTracing provide some mindshare on tracing RPC style communications, but leave much unsaid about asynchronous communications over message busses or Kafka.
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Easing the Path to F# Adoption
Featuring Colin Bull
In this talk Colin will share with you the way he structures code and use (or not use) features of F# to help smooth the transition to F# for developers new to the language.
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Lightning Talk: Lessons from F#: From Academic Prototypes to Safety-Critical Systems
Featuring Heidy Khlaaf
In the past decade, F# has shown its potential as one of the most successful functional languages in the software development community. But F#'s success reaches beyond the confines of software engineering, and expands into the realms of education, academia, and research.
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The Curious Case of Freya, Suave and Giraffe: Reducing Risks In Picking a New Tech.
Featuring Gien Verschatse
Picking a new technology is hard. Very often you avoid change at all cost, and go with the devil you know. Another extreme is to do some haphazard implementation and hope for the best.
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STOCK CARS, RASPBERRY PI, AND F#
Featuring Jamie Dixon
In North Carolina, stock car racing borders on obsession – with local track racing rivaling high school football as a popular Friday night family activity. Different local tracks have different classes of cars and Jamie's son ran in the intro division of 5/8 size car at three local speedways...
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Lightning Talk: Dr FunctionalLove or: How EROAD learned to stop worrying and love F#
Featuring Jim Bennett
A couple of years ago Jim started working at a company that was mainly a Java shop, except for a couple of Xamarin developers using C#. One of the developers loved F# and wanted to use it, but the architects said no! This is the story of how Jim and his Team slowly introduced F# to the company in...
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Keynote: F# Code I Love
Featuring Don Syme
This is a new talk! You will learn about some F# code that Don loves and why. Along the way, Don will also share about how it relates to the features of the programming language and the “sweet spot” for using F# both as an individual and in teams. Some of it will be other people’s code.
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Elmish: get your dev stack back under control
Featuring Maxime Mangel
Elmish implements the "Model-View-Update" architecture made famous by Elm. This offer you a clear separation between your state change and UI controls. But Elmish is also a rich ecosystem which provide easy access to modern development tools.
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