Systematic Software with Scala – Adam Rosien

Scala is a very flexible language, and this flexibility can make it difficult to know how to effectively design Scala code. In the nearly ten years I've been using Scala, my approach to using the language has coalesced around a ten or so strategies, which are similar to OO design patterns but broader in scope and borrow many ideas from functional programming. Using these strategies I can create code in a systematic and repeatable way. In this talk I will present the majority of my strategies, and illustrate their use by live coding a simple graphics system where the majority of the code is systematically derived by applying strategies. The strategies allow me to work at a higher-level of abstraction, and the coding itself becomes formulaic. This means I can get more work done and my code is simpler to read and use. I hope that my strategies will also enable you to design better code in Scala.* Material *

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Typelevel Summit Philadelphia, April 2019:

* About Speaker *

Adam Rosien is a Principal at Inner Product, focused on building systems using functional programming. He previously helped various startups in many domains develop back-end systems and implement continuous deployment practices, and also spent five years as a developer at Xerox PARC.

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