Keynote: Conveying the Power of Abstraction

Featuring Dr Eugenia Cheng

Abstract mathematics is sometimes thought of being very far removed from real life, perhaps something that people think about with their head in the clouds as opposed to the sort of applied maths and science do when people are thinking about "reality". And yet, many of you who work in...

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Monad I Love You Now Get Out of My Type System

Featuring Gjeta Gjyshinca and James Belsey

Functional programming has features such as presumed immutability and a declarative nature. With the rise of multicore machines and the growth in multi-threaded programming, it's natural for functional programming to increase in prominence. However non-functional programming languages and...

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Connecting the Dots With (Distributed) Tracing

Featuring Petra Bierleutgeb

In microservice-oriented, asynchronous and often event-driven systems, looking at traditional log files only gives a glimpse of the whole story. In such systems, and even within a single service, tracing and correlated logs are important tools to maintain the ability to comprehend logical flows...

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Meetings With Remarkable Trees

Featuring Bodil Stokke

Everybody knows the classic cons list. Clojeurs brag about their bitmapped vector tries. Haskell weenies took it up a notch with their impossible finger trees. Rustaceans turned back the clock and gave us simple arrays again.

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Introduction to Kafka Streaming

Featuring Lindsey Dew and Omnia Ibrahim

The last few years we've witnessed the rise of data-driven projects, with Apache Kafka leading the charge for streaming big volumes of data.

In this session Omnia and Lindsey will introduce you to Kafka Streams. They will be sharing with you Scala code examples, demonstrations of use-cases...

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Factor Recursion Out of Your Codebase

Featuring Tamer AbdulRadi

Recursion is hard! But luckily you can 'get it right' once and reuse it in other projects.

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Back to Basics aka 'When to Break Rules'

Featuring Rory Graves

Best practices always comes as snippets of advice. Nowadays you are told to be 'functional', 'immutable', 'pure', and 'reactive'. To really understand these buzzwords you need to go back to basics.

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Cobind and Chill

Featuring Danielle Ashley

Recently the comonad has been getting several mentions, although real-world applications are less common than for the monad. One example often cited is to use comonads to do signal processing. But what does it mean in practice?

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Lightning Talk: N Features that Scala Should Steal From Other Languages

Featuring Chris Birchall

If you want Scala to evolve in a healthy manner, you should keep an eye on the state of the art in other modern languages. Let's re-use their good ideas and avoid reinventing wheels.

In this talk Chris will share with you some interesting features and ideas he's found in other languages,...

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Validating Big Data Jobs - Stopping Failures before Production (w/ Spark, BEAM, & friends!)

Featuring Holden Karau

As big data jobs move from the proof-of-concept phase into powering real production services, you will need to consider what will happen when everything eventually goes wrong (such as recommending inappropriate products or other decisions taken on bad data).

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