Track Overview
Resurgence of Functional Programming
What was once a paradigm shift in how we thought of programming languages is now main stream in nearly all modern languages. Hear how software shops are infusing concepts like pure functions and immutablity into their architectures and design choices.
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C#'s Functional Journey
Thursday Nov 5 / 12:00PM EST
Two decades ago C# started out squarely in the camp of object-oriented programming languages. Ever since, though, there’s barely been a new version of the language that didn’t borrow concepts and features from functional programming; most recently with records. Why do we do it? How do...
Mads Torgersen
Chief Language Designer of C# & Contributor to TypeScript, Visual Basic, Roslyn, LINQ
The Functional Evolution of Object-Oriented Programming
Thursday Nov 5 / 12:50PM EST
The foundation of programming which many of us have used for 20 years is evolving into something new. Concepts including immutability, functions, ADTs, and pattern-matching are helping us solve problems more reliably, understandably, and quickly. This session will help you understand the...
James Ward
Developer Advocate @GCPcloud
Joshua Suereth
Staff Software Engineer @Google
A Love Letter to Clojure
Thursday Nov 5 / 01:40PM EST
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Gene Kim
Author of The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project & Accelerate
Panel: The Future of Functional Programming
Thursday Nov 5 / 02:30PM EST
Please join Natalia Chechina and Dean Wampler, two well-known functional programming practitioners who bring deep experience from the Erlang and Scala ecosystems, as we talk about what is coming in the future. We will continue exploring the track theme on how functional programming...
Natalia Chechina
Lecturer in Computing at Bournemouth University
Dean Wampler
Principal Software Engineer @DominoDataLab
Speakers from this track
Mads Torgersen
Chief Language Designer of C# & Contributor to TypeScript, Visual Basic, Roslyn, LINQ
Mads is the lead designer of the C# programming language, and a program manager at Microsoft. Over the years he’s also participated in the design of TypeScript, Visual Basic.NET and even Java.
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James Ward
Developer Advocate @GCPcloud
James Ward (www.jamesward.com) is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform. Formerly the Director, Open Source and Engineering Engagement at Salesforce.com he led their open source program and engineering blog. James frequently presents at conferences around the world such as JavaOne,...
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Joshua Suereth
Staff Software Engineer @Google
Josh Suereth is a Staff Software Engineer at Google LLC focusing on operational visibility and OpenTelemetry. He is a member of the Scala Language Improvement Process committee, and a contributor to open source. He’s the author of Scala in Depth, and loves sharing things he's learned...
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Gene Kim
Author of The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project & Accelerate
Gene Kim is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, researcher, and multiple award-winning CTO. He has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999 and was the founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He is the author of six books including The Unicorn Project, and...
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Natalia Chechina
Lecturer in Computing at Bournemouth University
Natalia Chechina is passionate about distributed systems, cooperative robotics, scalability, fault tolerance, and as a result is in love with Erlang. Her research investigates approaches and techniques to enable scaling and efficient performance on commodity hardware where components are loosely...
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Dean Wampler
Principal Software Engineer @DominoDataLab
Dean Wampler (@deanwampler) is an expert in data engineering and Scala, focusing on ML/AI. He is a Principal Software Engineer at Domino Data Lab. Dean is the author of "Programming Scala, 3rd Edition" (forthcoming), "What Is Ray?", and other books and reports from...
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Track Host
Randy Shoup
VP Engineering and Chief Architect @eBay
Randy has spent more than two decades building distributed systems and high performing teams, and has worked as a senior technology leader at eBay, Google, and Stitch Fix. He coaches CTOs, advises companies, and generally makes a nuisance of himself wherever possible. He is currently VP...
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