“Taming Types in the Cloud” with Isaac Abraham

Come join us at the Jet HQ to welcome Isaac Abraham! Isaac will focus on how we can make use of F#’s type system in tandem with distant data sources in order to provide a stable foundation for developing on top of standard Azure services, through the use of type providers. The focus of the talk will center around the Azure Storage Type Provider, and will illustrate how to use it to simplify many day-to-day development tasks around working with blobs, tables and queues. We’ll also discuss some of the challenges both with writing type providers in general and especially when working with chargeable services. Finally, we’ll (hopefully!) see a brief demo of a new Azure-based type provider that’s currently in development, for provisioning entire application stacks.

Learn more about Isaac here:

https://twitter.com/isaac_abraham

Please arrive 10-15 minutes ahead of time to allow the talk to run on schedule. Lunch will be served! :)