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Towards Language Support for Distributed Systems
Summary
Heather Miller talks about research in programming languages: building up richer computations making use of CRDTs and implemented as compositions of serverless functions.
Bio
Heather Miller is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, she was the co-founder and Executive Director of the Scala Center at EPFL, where she was also a research scientist, as well as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Northeastern University.
About the conference
Code Mesh LDN, the Alternative Programming Conference, focuses on promoting useful non-mainstream technologies to the software industry. The underlying theme is "the right tool for the job", as opposed to automatically choosing the tool at hand.