Scala Love in the City

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Scala Love in the City is the combination of two awesome events, Scala Love Conferences and Scala in the City.

We are incredibly excited to bring you all a 2-track, 1-day online conference filled with the best Scala and FP Speakers.

Signify Technology and Konfy want to give back to the community and Scala community, therefore, we are not charging for this event, we are only asking that any donations you are able to make would be greatly appreciated as these will go to deserving charities who are helping us all during COVID-19 including NHS and Doctors Without Borders.

Who speaks?

Scala Love in the City is a conference for folks who simply love the Scala language, community, and ecosystem.

Alex Archembault, @alxarchambault

Based in Paris, Alex is a Software Engineer, Physicist and the author of Coursier.

OOP versus Type Classes in Scala

Scala is a hybrid OOP+FP language. If you love OOP, Scala is one of the best static OOP languages. But Scala also exposes parametric polymorphism and can encode type classes.

Thus, developers can also choose to use parametric polymorphism restricted by type classes (aka ad hoc polymorphism). As if choosing when to use immutability versus object identity wasn't bad enough, developers are also faced with a difficult choice when expressing abstractions. Such choices create tension in teams, with the code style depending on the team leader or whoever does the code reviews.

Let's go through what is OOP, what is ad hoc polymorphism via type classes, how to design type classes, go through the pros and cons, and establish guidelines for what to pick, depending on the use case.

Mateusz Kubuzok, @MateuszKubuszok

Mateusz Kubuzok is currently a Senior Backend Developer at SwissBorg, Poland. He is passionate about Scala and has his own blog. He is also the author of Things you need to know about JVM (that matter in Scala)

Lars Hupel, @larsr_h

Lars Hupel is a consultant wit h INNQQ, Germany. They are known as one of the founders of the Typelevel initiative which is dedicated to providing principled, type-​driven Scala libraries in a friendly, welcoming environment.

Josh Suereth, @jsuereth

Josh is a Staff Software Engineer at Google. He is also the author of Scala in Depth.

Debasish Gosh, @debasishg

Debasish is a programmer based in India, he is the author of both Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling (Manning 2016) and DSLs In Action (Manning 2010).

Chris Jansen, @janstenpickle

Chris is a Senior Systems Engineer at Intent HQ, London.

Jakob Odersky, @jodersky

Based in New York, Jakob works on a secure multiparty computation engine at Inpher. You can see some of his current projects here.

Nicolas Rinaudo, @NicolasRinaudo

Nicolas is a Scala and FP enthusiast. He is the CTO of Besedo and CTO and Founder of ioSquare.

Alex Nedelcu, @alexelcu

Alex is a Software Developer at ING and Typelevel Contributor. Author of Monix, he is passionate about Scala, Haskell and FP.

Gabriele Petronella, @gabro27

Well-known conference speaker, Gabriele has graced the stage of global FP and Scala conferences such as Scala Days. Co-Founder of buildo and Organiser of Scala Italy, Gabriele has many insights to share.

Sean Glover, @seg1o

Software Engineer on the Akka team at Lightbend and Scala Toronto Organiser, Sean Glover has a wealth of knowledge.

More speakers and talks TBC.

To ensure the safety and health of all our lovely community members, this conference is a remote-only conference.

Times

Scala Love in the City takes place on February 13th, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM Central European Time (12:00 AM Midnight to 2:00 PM Pacific Standard Time). We are going to have two tracks: one for speakers based in Europe/Asia and one for speakers based in America!