Medidata
Medidata
Medidata is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, with the world's most used platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Powered by artificial intelligence and delivered by the #1 ranked industry experts, the Intelligent Platform for Life Sciences helps pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk and optimize outcomes. Medidata serves more than 1,000 customers and partners worldwide and empowers more than 100,000 certified users every day to create hope for millions of patients. Discover the future of life sciences: www.mdsol.com
Upcoming Events
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Keynote by Valentin Kasas on The Last Frontier and Beyond
Organised by Scala Matters
Have you written boilerplate code for your business model that needs to keep up with the rate your profession is scaling at? Join Valentin Kasas at this month's Scala Matters who'll be sharing with us how to help your business classes evolve without breaking compatibility. Join at 6:30pm...
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Keynote Evening with Zainab Ali!
Organised by Scala Matters
Zainab Ali will be joining us this month's Scala Matters to share her keynote! Zainab is the author of Libra and a contributor to many functional Scala libraries, such as cats and fs2. Don't miss it!
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Keynote by Naoki Takezoe on Revisit Dependency Injection in Scala and Introduction to Airframe
Organised by Scala Matters
At this month's Scala Matters, Naoki Takezoe will be joining us all the way from Japan to share his keynote on Dependency Injection and how it can improve maintainability and testability of your applications. Don't miss it!
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Why API Design Matters, and Why Yours Sucks! (and mine sucks too!)
Featuring Dick Wall
Scala offers incredible power and flexibility, providing features from many different languages and philosophies. This leads to a very diverse ecosystem and a wide range of possibilities for solving the same problems in very different ways.
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The Elements of Tagless Final Style
Featuring Noel Welsh
Much has been said about tagless final style. It is variously dead, alive, or rising from the grave to wreak revenge upon its detractors.
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Scala 2.13 and Beyond!
Featuring Adriaan Moors
The headline feature for this year's Scala release is a reworked collections library, with a focus on simplicity and performance. As we look forward to Scala 3, Adriaan is really excited to deliver the first significant part of his team's vision for the next decade of functional...
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How I Rebuilt the Typelevel Ecosystem with Fury
Featuring Jon Pretty
Fury is a new build tool and dependency manager for Scala, based on a radical new model of source dependencies and distributed builds. The Typelevel ecosystem offers a platform of many useful Scala projects which have been converted to use Fury.
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The Death of Final Tagless
Featuring John De Goes
Final tagless. The topic strikes fear into the hearts of Scala developers everywhere—and not without reason. Final tagless allows developers to build composable Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) that model interaction with the outside world. Programs written using the final tagless style can be...
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Reinforcement Learning in Scala
Featuring Chris Birchall
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful machine learning paradigm that has been successfully applied to a wide class of problems, from steering helicopters to predicting stock prices. During this talk you will find out what RL is all about and how to implement it in Scala. Chris will introduce...
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Ciris: Functional Configurations
Featuring Viktor Lövgren
Configurations can be a time bomb waiting to explode. In fact, configuration errors have become a major cause of failures in large-scale systems. Many of these issues arise because configuration values are not validated upfront.
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Kotlin vs Scala
Featuring Urs Peter and Joost Heijkoop
You have almost 20 years of Scala experience and have experience with many other languages. Recently you have jumped onto Kotlin, because it looks very promising as Java competitor. Of course there is no one size fits all solution. Joost will show how the two languages compare and explain why and...
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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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Embrace the Implicit
Featuring Anna Bladzich
Implicits are often regarded with suspicion by developers, with some teams going as far as banning them from their codebases.
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