A purely functional approach to building large applications
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One of the challenges of using a functional language, particularly when coming from an imperative one, is how to work with immutable, fully typed features, and make the most of them. This talk aims to highlight some useful approaches and patterns to create modular, easily testable applications in Scala by building a small, toy application from scratch.
You will be covering:
· Scalaz's Reader and ReaderT monads
· Abstraction over monads and why this is useful
· Using the ScalaCheck library with non-trivial code
· An alternative, fully type-safe approach to creating application configuration
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A purely functional approach to building large applications
Noel Markham
Noel started out as a Java developer in finance before moving to functional programming in startups for both games and social media. More recently, he has worked in broadcast media.