Everyday Scala & Show me the Monoids

Your Everyday Scala - Jacob Wang

This talk will introduce you to Scala, a hybrid OO/FP language running on the JVM. We will cover its language features, library/tooling ecosystem as well as our own experience running Skedulo's backend almost entirely in Scala.

Show me the Monoids - Nat Dash

In this talk we will discuss monoids and how they are defined. We will look at some examples of how this abstraction can make code cleaner.

Finally, we will take a look at how monoids are used in a general purpose data structure - finger trees.