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Functional Vectors, Maps, and Sets in Julia
Zach Allaun shows how to build a functional and persistent vector, hash map, and set on top of the same data structure, and how to optimize the code for performance.
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Pickles & Spores: Improving Distributed Prog. in Scala
Heather Miller presents attempts at better supporting distributed programming in Scala, including a new fast pickling framework, as well as Spores - composable pieces of mobile functional behaviour.
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Building a Multi-Master Distributed Redis in Erlang
Chad DePue presents the process of building Edis, a Redis clone written in Erlang, allowing pluggable backends and implementing the Paxos algorithm.
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Evolution of Scala Macros
Eugene Burmako introduces Scala macros, starting with the initial design and the actual release in production in Scala 2.10, addressing Scala macro system use cases and patterns.
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Polyglot Web Development With Grails 2
Jeff Scott Brown explains how to write polyglot applications with Grails, focusing on what it takes to add support for Scala, Clojure and other languages.
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Erlang for Authoritative DNS
Anthony Eden explains why they chose to use Erlang for an authoritative DNS, how Erlang helped along the way and some of the challenges faced.
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Deconstructing Functional Programming
Gilad Bracha explains how to distinguish FP hype from reality and to apply key ideas of FP in non-FP languages, separating the good parts of FP from its unnecessary cultural baggage.
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Scala vs Idris: Dependent Types, Now and in the Future
Miles Sabin and Edwin Brady exemplify what can be done with a language with dependent types, what are the limitations and what could be done in the future when dependent types reach maturity.
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Simplifying Asynchronous Code With Scala Async
Philipp Haller introduces Scala Async for asynchronous I/O with Futures and Promises.
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Functional Programming for Optimization Problems with City of Palo Alto Open Data
Paco Nathan reviews an example data analysis application written in Cascalog used for a recommender system based on City of Palo Alto Open Data.
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Functional Reactive Programming in Elm
Evan Czaplicki explains the key concepts of Functional Reactive Programming, showing how FRP can avoid the callback hell. He shows how to use FRP for games, demoing a Mario game.
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Scaling out with Akka Actors
Joshua Suereth designs a scalable distributed search service with Akka and Scala using actors, and covering practical aspects of how to scale out with Akka’s clustering API.
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