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Functional Systems @ Twitter

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Marius Eriksen explains Twitter's experiences with functional programming (with Scala) @ Twitter: where functional techniques worked and where not. Also: how the Scala language has scaled with Twitter

Bio

Marius Eriksen is a Principal Engineer in Twitter's systems infrastructure group. His interests include large-scale distributed systems, storage systems, indexing systems, data management, distributed coordination, runtimes, profiling tools, networks, network protocols, and functional programming.

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Jan 09, 2015

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