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Why is a Monad Like a Writing Desk?
Carin Meier tells the story of Alice discovering Monads, meeting three types of monads – Identity, Maybe, State-, and learning how to implement them in Clojure.
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Objects, Anomalies, and Actors: The Next Revolution
Steve Vinoski believes that actor-oriented languages such as Erlang are better prepared for the challenges of the future: cloud, multicore, high availability and fault tolerance.
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Polyglot Programming: The Power of Hybridization
Bruce Eckel emphasizes using different languages within a project, each one for the task it is better fitted for, and giving several such examples: Python+Scala, Go+Python, Python+CoffeeScript.
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Play!: I’ll See Your Async and Raise You Reactive
Guillaume Bort and Sadek Drobi introduce Play, a Java and Scala web development framework, insisting on its asynchronous reactive capabilities built on Iteratee IO.
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Building Polyglot Systems with Scalang
Cliff Moon discusses Scalang, a message passing and actor library enabling easy communication between Scala and Erlang apps, wrapping services in Scalang actors.
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Building Highly Available Systems in Erlang
Joe Armstrong discusses highly available (HA) systems, introducing different types of HA systems and data, HA architecture and algorithms, 6 rules of HA, and how HA is done with Erlang.
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How We (Mostly) Moved from Java to Scala
Graham Tackley discusses how The Guardian switched all new development from Java to Scala, why they did that, what were the benefits and the problems, and why they did not choose Python+Django.
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Exploring Composition and Functional Systems in the Cloud
David Pollak discusses predicates, dependencies, functional languages and programming for the real-time cloud.
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Scalaz: Functional Programming in Scala
Rúnar Bjarnason discusses Scalaz, a Scala library of pure data structures, type classes, highly generalized functions, and concurrency abstractions to perform functional programming in Scala.
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Yesod Web Framework
Michael Snoyman presents Yesod, a web framework written in Haskell and containing a web server, templating, ORM, libraries (templating, gravatar, etc.).
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Functional Thinking
Neal Ford emphasizes the fact that functional programming uses a different way of solving a problem, thinking about the results rather than the steps to make.
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Running Spring Java and Scala Apps on Heroku
James Ward demoes building a Spring Roo application and a Grails one, deploying them on Heroku.
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