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Abstract Data Types In The Region Of Abysmal Pain, And How To Navigate Them
Featuring Zainab Ali
Abstract data types are an essential tool in a programmer's toolkit, but finding a data structure to fit them can be challenging. This is especially so for graphs, which can have complex constraints that are difficult to encode using conventional data structures.
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The Last Frontier and Beyond
Featuring Valentin Kasas
Have you ever written some boilerplate code for handling your application’s communication with the outside world? You know, that JSON (de)serializer that once was nicely generated at compile-time but broke when you had to evolve your business model?
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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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A Fistful of Functors
Featuring Itamar Ravid
Functors show up everywhere in our day-to-day programming. They're so common, we take them for granted – especially in typed functional programming. Besides being common, they're incredibly useful for code reuse. However, functors have some lesser known variants: profunctors, bifunctors,...
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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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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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Type-Driven Development in Practice: Cats and Akka HTTP
Featuring Matt Roberts
Type-driven development is a programming style where you write types first and use them to guide the definition of functions in your program. Scala is particularly well suited to it because of its powerful type system. Cats lets you take Scala and type-driven development even further by...
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Neural Network from Scratch in Scala
Featuring Joy Sun
Deep learning/neural network is the new buzzword. While there are many libraries that provide a complete model in one API call, building things from scratch is still the best way to learn all the details both in theory and in implementation.
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