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Lightning Talk: Meet Akka gRPC
Featuring Renato Cavalcanti
In this lightning talk, Renato will give a short demo on Akka gRPC and how it can be integrated with Akka Http, Play and Lagom. gRPC is a schema-first RPC framework, where your protocol is declared in a protobuf definition, and requests and responses will be streamed over an HTTP/2 connection.
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Lightning Talk: Adopting GraalVM
Featuring Petr Zapletal
After many years of development, Oracle finally published GraalVM and sparkled a lot of interest in the community. GraalVM is a high-performance polyglot VM with a number of potentially interesting traits we can take advantage of like increased performance and lowered cost. It can also tackle...
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Lightning Talk: Why the Web is a Monad
Featuring Luke Tebbs
Luke has devised a technique and library to allow a programmer to define a user-interaction as an abstract program which can then in turn be used to derive a CLI, GUI and Web user-interface simultaneously. This cuts down on development time considerably, future-proofs code against changes 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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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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Program Description Based Programming
Featuring Luc Duponcheel
During this talk, you will learn about the implementation and usage of a library, PDBP, written using the Dotty language, implementing FP, the language presented by John Backus during his Turing Award winning lecture.
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Keynote: Pushing Types and Gazing at the Stars
Featuring Rob Norris
The hardest thing about functional programming is learning how to think like a functional programmer. Simple questions can lead to very general answers, but it's not always obvious how to get from here to there.
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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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Fire and Fury
Featuring Jon Pretty
Fury (https://fury.build/) is a new dependency manager and build tool for Scala, taking a disruptive new approach to how Scala developers can build, share and publish software in the future.
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Lightning Talk: Bridging the Gap Between Front End and Back End
Featuring Pere Villega
Bridges is a library by Dave Gurnell that generates front end code (currently Elm, Typescript, and Flow) from your case classes.
scala library flow typescript elm shapeless front-end
