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There are (at least) two ways to solve the problem, which are quite popular: free monads and the tagless final encoding. Both are equivalent in expressive power, but are radically different when it comes to code.
In this live-coding talk, you will learn how to transform a simple application which relies on Future
s into more generic forms, using either the free monad or tagless final. You will discover how these two representations compare in terms of boilerplate, readability, composability and stack-safety. You will also explore which approach might be a better fit for selected use-ca
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Adam Warski
Adam is one of the co-founders of SoftwareMill, a company specialising in delivering customised software solutions. He codes mostly on the back-end using Scala and other interesting technologies. Adam created a couple of open-source projects, such as sttp, MacWire, Hibernate Envers and ElasticMQ. He has been a speaker at major conferences, such as Devoxx, JavaOne, LambdaConf and ScalaDays.