Introduction to cats-effect, by Gavin Bisesi

Cats Effect is a functional side effect library - I'll explain what that means, what it gives you, how to use it, and why you should care.

At Teikametrics we adopted this library last year, and I'll discuss how we approach application design using it, both from a green field perspective as well as the techniques we used to migrate a living codebase away from akka-streams without "the big rewrite".

Our hosts this month are Teikametrics. Teikametrics uses data science and machine learning to help retailers optimize for profitability in a complex, fast moving marketplace.