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Functional DSLs for Biocomputation
Colin Gravill talks about how using F# to construct a shared analysis engine and the languages used to make the individual tools.
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Making Hadoop Real Time with Scala & GridGain
Nikita Ivanov shows adding real-time capabilities to Hadoop through a demo application streaming word counting on a 2-nodes cluster.
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Clojure, Functional Programming and Data at uSwitch.com
Paul Ingles explains how Clojure’s approach to immutable data has helped uSwitch to treat everything as data and build many tools that operate on the same data without contention.
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A Type Driven Approach to Functional Design
Michael Feathers describes an approach toward planning the design of the functional portions of an application by using a variation of Haskell type expression syntax.
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Zen and the Art of Live Programming
Sam Aaron promotes the benefits of Live Programming using interactive editors, REPL sessions, real-time visuals and sound, live documentation and on-the-fly-compilation.
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Asynchronous to Real-time Web Programming
Nilanjan Raychaudhuri presents some of the asynchronous techniques (Comet, HTTP Streaming, WebSockets, Server events) and frameworks (Asyn servlets, vert.x, Play) for building large web applications.
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Elixir: Modern Programming for the Erlang VM
José Valim introduces Elixir, a programming language for the Erlang VM – an attempt to provide better abstractions and productivity tools like protocols and macros usually required for web development
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Reverend Bayes, Meet Countess Lovelace: Machine Learning and Programming
Andy Gordon discusses machine learning using functional programming, explaining how Infer.NET Fun turns the succinct syntax of F# into an executable modeling language for Bayesian machine learning.
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A Taxonomy of Scala
Jamie Allen explains some of the terminology encountered by Scala developers and not only: OO features, pattern matching, functional programming, actors, futures, tuples, implicits, type theory, etc.
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Lessons from Erlang: Principles of Building Reliable Systems
Garrett Smith discusses building reliable systems starting with lessons from Erlang, then outlining a set of principles and the practices for applying them in languages such as Ruby, Python, and Java.
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Compiling Scala to LLVM
Geoff Reedy informs on the current status of a LLVM backend for the Scala compiler project he’s working on, detailing on its design and implementation.
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Lessons from Functional Programming in Five Languages
Robert Rees shares lessons learned while using Clojure and applied them to other languages, Scala, JavaScript and Java.
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