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Why Spark Is the Next Top (Compute) Model
Dean Wampler argues that Spark/Scala is a better data processing engine than MapReduce/Java because tools inspired by mathematics, such as FP, are ideal tools for working with data.
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Reactive APIs in Spray, Akka and Scala
Jan Machacek demos creating and using reactive APIs in Scala with Spray and Akka.
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Functional Principles for Object-Oriented Developers
Jessica Kerr explains through Java and C# code samples six principles of the functional programming style.
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The Functional Programming Concepts in Facebook's Mobile Apps
Adam Ernst shows how his team at Facebook encountered spiraling complexities and declining reliability and decided to make the shift to functional, in the data model and the view layer of News Feed.
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Sweet Elixir! A Gentle Introduction to Erlang’s Cute Younger Brother Elixir
Ryan Cromwell introduces Elixir, a , functional distributed meta programming language inspired by Ruby and compiling to Erlang VM, covering pattern matching, pipelines and tail-call recursion.
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Retro Gaming with Lambdas
Stephen Chin shows how to use lambda in Java to create a video game with JavaFX. Other features covered are: enhanced collections, functional interfaces, simplified event handlers, and the stream API.
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The Functional Final Frontier
David Nolen introduces Om, a ClojureScript library that adds a functional layer on top of Facebook React, providing OO abstractions in a MVC environment.
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Teach Your Eye to Eat (Clojure)
Mario Aquino discusses the structure and organization of Clojure's Lisp syntax as well as special forms in the language for declaring data structures.
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Erlang Patterns Matching Business Needs
Torben Hoffmann shares a number of patterns from Erlang systems, modeled through Object-Process Methodology, discussing their impact on business needs.
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That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
Rick Reed shares scalability and reliability insights, techniques, and hacks used and learned developing WhatsApp on an Erlang/FreeBSD infrastructure.
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Caml Trading - Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street
Jane Street runs a large trading business on software written almost entirely in OCaml, a statically typed functional language. Yaron Minsky shows the reasons for choosing Ocaml and how it worked out.
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Erjang - With the JVM Under the Hood
Kresten Krab Thorup introduces Erjang, an Erlang VM based on the JVM, disclosing some of its internal workings and challenges building it.
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