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Add ALL the Things: Abstract Algebra Meets Analytics
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Summary
Avi Bryant discusses how the laws of group theory provide a useful codification of the practical lessons of building efficient distributed and real-time aggregation systems.
Bio
Avi Bryant has led product, engineering, and data science teams at Etsy, Twitter and Dabble DB (which he co-founded and Twitter acquired). He's known for his open source work on projects such as Seaside, Scalding, and Algebird. Avi currently works at Stripe.
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.
Nov 20, 2013
Community comments
Great presentation
by Ant hony,
abstract algebra book
by Dmitry Neverov,
Java example slides
by Nirmalya Sengupta,
This is the best introduction to algebird or monoids!
by Tomer Ben David,
Great presentation
by Ant hony,
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The last few monoids were just awesome. You gotta love the beauty of mathematics! This presentation made my day, thanks Avi :)
abstract algebra book
by Dmitry Neverov,
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I wonder if there is a book explaining an abstract algebra to programmers? I know about "Elements of programming" by Alexander Stepanov, but it is somewhat hard to read..
Java example slides
by Nirmalya Sengupta,
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Very useful, thanks! However, after about 20:00 minutes, the slide don't appear on the browser. Kind of frustrating.
This is the best introduction to algebird or monoids!
by Tomer Ben David,
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thank you!