Presentations

• Posted by Olivier Chafik  on  May 17, 2014
  Extreme Speedups and GPGPU: A Tale of Two Practical Uses of Reified Trees

  Olivier Chafik discusses how to make a practical use of reified trees in Scala, with two applications: run-time (re)compilation for extreme speed, and conversion to another language (OpenCL).

  Olivier Chafik

  on  May 17, 2014

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• Posted by Sadek Drobi  on  May 17, 2014
  Playframework Scala: Democratizing Functional Programming for Web Developers

  Sadek Drobi introduces the Play Framework for developers interested in doing web programming in a functional language.

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  on  May 17, 2014

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• Posted by Jonathan Worthington  on  May 15, 2014
  Using Invoke Dynamic to Teach the JVM a New Language

  Jonathan Worthington explains how invokedynamic works, how he has been using it while porting the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler to the JVM, and its performance impact.

  Jonathan Worthington

  on  May 15, 2014

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• Posted by Trisha Gee  on  May 10, 2014
  HTML5/Angular.js/ Groovy/Java/ MongoDB, All Together - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  Trisha Gee demoes building a web application using Java, HTML5, Angular.js, Mongo.DB, Groovy and microservices in one hour.

  Trisha Gee

  on  May 10, 2014

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• Posted by Age Mooij  on  May 10, 2014
  Between Zero & Hero - Tips & Tricks for the Intermediate-Level Scala Developer

  Age Mooij shares some tips&tricks for the Scala developer: type aliases, type and class tag, auto-lifted partial functions, nostacktrace, type classes, context bounds, low priority default implicits.

  Age Mooij

  on  May 10, 2014

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• Posted by Deepak Giridharagopal  on  May 09, 2014
  PuppetDB: A Story of Immutable Infrastructure

  Deepak Giridharagopal discusses "immutable infrastructure", PuppetDB and complex invariants, PuppetDB’s architecture, the experience of bringing Clojure to a Ruby shop and lessons learned from that.

  Deepak Giridharagopal

  on  May 09, 2014

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• Posted by Jamie Allen  on  May 08, 2014
  Effective Actors

  Jamie Allen reviews some of the actor patterns as implemented in Akka and Scala.

  Jamie Allen

  on  May 08, 2014

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• Posted by Simon Willnauer  on  May 03, 2014
  With a Hammer in Your Hand… Elasticsearch

  Simon Willnauer introduces and demoes some of the main features of Elasticsearch.

  Simon Willnauer

  on  May 03, 2014

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• Posted by Jamie Allen  on  May 01, 2014
  Real World Akka Recipes

  Jamie Allen describes three patterns using Akka actors: handling a lack of guaranteed delivery, distributing tasks to worker actors and implementing distributed workers in an Akka cluster.

  Jamie Allen

  on  May 01, 2014

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• Posted by Jon Neale  on  Apr 18, 2014
  Exploring a Legacy Clojure Codebase

  Jon Neale, Ragnar Dahlen discuss the challenges dealing with large Clojure legacy code at uSwitch.

  Jon Neale Ragnar Dahlen

  on  Apr 18, 2014

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• Posted by Renzo Borgatti  on  Apr 14, 2014
  Dissecting Clojure Reducers

  Renzo Borgatti discusses implementing parallel solutions with reducers in Clojure, doing live coding that show what functional abstractions are involved and why.

  Renzo Borgatti

  on  Apr 14, 2014

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• Posted by Simon Ritter  on  Apr 06, 2014
  Lambdas & Streams

  Simon Ritter discusses the syntax and use of Lambda expressions, focusing on using Streams to greatly simplify the way bulk and aggregate operations are handled in Java.

  Simon Ritter

  on  Apr 06, 2014

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