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Erik Meijer discusses programming language design, effects and some web programming problems
Erik Meijer distinguishes between two kinds of programming languages, pure functional and all the others. He emphasizes some issues regarding mixing higher order programming with effects. Erik then talks about the nature of Javascript, and true problems we need to solve in web programming.
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Debasish Ghosh on Functional Programming, NoSQL
Debasish Ghosh talks about the advantages of functional programming and how its abstractions help to reason about code, Monads, DSLs, NoSQL and MongoDB, and much more.
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Ken Little on Scaling Tumblr
Ken Little talks about scaling Tumblr to keep up with their blogging users: scaling the data model, sharding, their PHP frontend and the Scala backend, and much more.
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Phil Trelford on Functional Architectures, F#
Phil Trelford discusses how to design large scale applications with functional concepts, the state of the F# community and much more.
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Rúnar Bjarnason on Scalaz, Lenses, Functional Programming and Scala
Rúnar Bjarnason talks about the ideas behind and features in the popular scalaz library, programming concepts like (bi-directional) lenses, Scala Macros, and much more.
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Miles Sabin on Dependent Types with Scala, Shapeless, Scala Macros
Miles Sabin explains dependent typing in Scala, the Shapeless project that demonstrates these concepts, static typing improvements in Scala and Scala Macros.
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Lance Walton on Scala in the Enterprise
Lance Walton discusses Scala in the enterprise, educating developers in functional programming and whether Scala's binary compatibility issues between releases are a problem, and much more.
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Dick Wall on Scala, DI with SubCut, Scala Compiler Plugins, Java's Future
Dick Wall explores the state and future of Java, his reasons for switching to programming in Scala, the SubCut Dependency Injection library for Scala, Scala Compiler Plugins and much more.
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Scala, Functional Programming and Play 2.0
Sadek Drobi discusses functional programming sand Scala's multi paradigm approach at QCon London 2012. He also shares insights into the new Play 2.0 framework.
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Nada Amin on Scala DSLs with Lightweight Modular Staging and Compiling to JavaScript
Nada Amin explains Scala's Lightweight Modular Staging, how it can be used for embedded DSLs, using it for an embedded JavaScript DSL that compiles to JavaScript and offers callback-free programming.
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Viktor Klang on Akka, Futures and Promises, Scala
Viktor Klang talks about the features of Akka 2.x and future releases, Akka's approach to fault tolerance, the effort to unify Futures in Scala, and the state of functional programming.
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Oleg Zhurakousky on Messaging, Spring Integration, and Cloud Architectures
In this interview done by InfoQ's Srini Penchikala, Oleg Zhurakousky talks about the cloud architectures with messaging as the core part of the cloud solutions. He also discusses the Spring Integration and other Spring projects like Spring Roo and Cloud Foundry.