McLaren Applied Technologies
McLaren Applied Technologies
Where man and machine perform together to address the world’s most significant challenges
McLaren Applied Technologies harnesses the significant R&D, technical expertise and innovative spirit that has kept McLaren at the pinnacle of elite motorsport for five decades. It then applies this knowledge and approach to improve the performance of and inspire innovation in blue-chip companies. McLaren Applied Technologies works in a range of industries, often totally unrelated to motorsport or automotive, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, transportation and consumer brands. Visit www.mclaren.com/appliedtechnologies for more details
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Keynote: Typelevel - the benefits of collaboration
Featuring Miles Sabin
A lot has happened since Lars Hupel gave his "State of the Typelevel" keynote at last years Scala eXchange. It hasn't always been plain sailing, but the arrival of the Cats project on the scene earlier this year marked the beginning an exciting period of collaboration among the...
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Keynote: Without Resilience, Nothing Else Matters
Featuring Jonas Bonér
It doesn’t matter how beautiful, loosely coupled, scalable, highly concurrent, non-blocking, responsive and performant your application is––if it isn't running, then it's 100% useless. Without resilience, nothing else matters.
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Keynote: Scaling Intelligence: moving ideas forward
Featuring Jessica Kerr
Scala is a scalable language. It is scalable in the computer sense, of small programs building into large programs. Does it scale in our mind, as well? There are a lot of ideas expressed in Scala. How do we scale those ideas from conception into full use? For any given idea, one person can't...
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Keynote: Spark+Hadoop and how it relates to Scala
Featuring Sean Owen
Scala seems to be, suddenly, an important language within the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, with the arrival of Scala-based projects like Apache Kafka and Apache Spark -- which is in essence "distributed Scala". In fact, it's not a surprising marriage: Hadoop has been building on...
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The rise of Scala at ING
Featuring Bas Geerdink
ING is investing in big data, analytics and stream processing to improve data quality and business processes such as balance forecasting, fraud detection and customer relation management. Our ambition is to become a data-driven ‘experimental enterprise’. To realize this, the ING team is working...
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Securing Microservices using Play and Akka HTTP
Featuring Rafal Gancarz
Going down the microservices route makes a lot of things around creating and maintaining large systems easier but it comes at a cost too, particularly associated with challenges around security. While securing monolithic applications was a relatively well understood area, the same can't be...
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Lessons from Clojure
Featuring Nicolas Long
Some lessons from the Clojure community on simplicity, the power of raw data, and a functional subset of Scala modelled on Clojure. The aim is to borrow some of the better ideas from Clojure-land, and also explore the idea that while types are great, there are far more important things that we...
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Flexible data structures in Scala
Featuring Mikael Valot
Strucs is a lightweight library that allows you to manipulate, encode and decode flexible data structures while maintaining immutability and type safety. A Struct is analogous to a case class that can accept new fields dynamically. Using the strucs extensions, a single struc instance can be...
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Workshop: Building Interpreters in Scala
Featuring Noel Welsh
This workshop will explore patterns for writing interpreters in Scala. It will start with basic untyped interpreters, and then cover monadic interpreters, GADTs, and free monads and applicatives as time and interest allows.
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The Atomic Sublimity of Ensime
Featuring Rory Graves
Ensime is actively evolving. Moving beyond Emacs, we have active support for other editors Atom and Sublime and Vim, giving them lots of IDE goodness. This talk is a whistlestop tour of the progress we are making sharing the Ensime love.
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