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Running a Startup on Haskell
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Summary
Bryan O'Sullivan presents a case study of a small startup that chose Haskell for its server-side code, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of using Haskell to quickly create a solid solution.
Bio
Bryan O’Sullivan is an Irish hacker, writer, and entrepreneur who lives in San Francisco. He has written books on leading-edge topics in distributed systems and functional programming, including “Mercurial: The Definitive Guide” and the Jolt award winner “Real World Haskell”. Most recently, he cofounded and is CTO of MailRank, a San Francisco email productivity company.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.
Oct 31, 2011
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Good presentation. He clearly benefits from his "full stack" knowledge of Haskell in being able to crank out clean/idiomatic puzzle pieces. A trait that is surely useful in whichever tech you primarily work with.