Scala Talks: Embracing Failure and Dioids

🎉 Come along to the London Scala Talks! 🎉
In this event you'll hear from Olga Mazhara & James Talbot.

Agenda
6:00pm - 🥤 Doors open. Come along and grab a drink!
6:40pm - 🗣️ Welcome and community news
6:45pm - 🗣️ Olga Mazhara - Embracing Failure: Insights into Functional Web Development with Scala
7:20pm - 🍕 Intermission: Join us for some free food and drinks! Vegan, vegetarian, halal and gluten-free options are provided. Let us know if you'd like something special - we'd be happy to accommodate.
8:00pm - 🗣️ James Talbot - Dioids: an interesting (but practical) approach to synchronizing state across devices
8:15pm - 🥤 Socialising: Grab a drink and let's discuss the talks.
9:00pm - 🍻 Join us in The Slaughtered Lamb pub to discuss the talks!

🌐 This event has a live stream. Join the webinar at 18:40PM London time.
Join on Zoom with password Q4g#LMME

🗣️ Olga Mazhara - Embracing Failure: Insights into Functional Web Development with Scala
Learning web development through courses and books often leaves us unprepared for real-world challenges. Missing configurations, absent tests, version mismatches, and poor documentation are common hurdles that aren't covered in simplified examples. This talk shares my journey of developing web applications with Scala, highlighting common pitfalls and unexpected difficulties.
⭐ Speaker ⭐
I've been immersed in functional programming for about 5 wonderful years. Recently, I started speaking at conferences and love soaking up the vibrant energy of the FP community. My journey includes teaching functional programming at university and organising cozy meet-ups with friends.
🗣️ James Talbot - Dioids: an interesting (but practical) approach to synchronizing state across devices
This talk aims to describe how Permutive keeps device states in sync across billions of end user devices using an approach based on the concept of "dioids." It will attempt to do this without assuming prior maths geekiness.
We will begin with an overview of the particular problem Permutive is trying to solve in this case. We will recap the common FP concepts of semigroups and monoids, and see how these are nearly, but not quite, the right tools to solve our problem. Finally we will introduce the (very much non-standard) concept of dioids, and see how they make solving our problem much more manageable.
⭐ Speaker ⭐
James is a Software Engineer at Permutive. He has been writing primarily Scala for 7+ years, with occasional Haskell, TypeScript, Kotlin, Elm and others. Likes: functional programming. Dislikes: referring to self in third person.

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