Tutorials: Nov 1-2, 2014
Track: Real World Functional
Location:
- Bayview A/B
Day of week:
- Monday
In this track we'll try to check up on the claims of the functional programming community: how and where are functional languages and concepts used in the real world? How do these concepts add value? What concepts carry their own weight and which ones don't? There may be Monads...
by Logan Linn
Software Engineer at Prismatic
Data mutation and state management are major sources of incidental complexity, which can make developing and debugging applications much more difficult. Browserbased applications,in particular, are inherently tied to mutability through the DOM. Embracing immutability allows us to write pure and declarative code that is modular, and can be understood without reasoning about other parts of the system.
ClojureScript is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript, and all data...
by Jafar Husain
Cross-Team UI Technical Lead at Netflix
What does a mouse drag event have in common with an Array of numbers?
The answer to this question may surprise you: they are both collections. This key insight holds the key to dramatically simplifying asynchronous programming in Javascript.
In this talk you will learn how you can use the familiar Javascript Array methods to create surprisingly expressive asynchronous programs. Using just a few functions, you will learn how to do the following:
- Declaratively build...
by Richard Kasperowski
QCon Open Space Facilitator
Open Space
Join Werner Schuster, our speakers, and other attendees as we check up on the claims of the functional programming community: how and where are functional languages and concepts used in the real world? How do these concepts add value? What concepts carry their own weight and which ones don't? There may be Monads…
What is Open Space?
Every day at QConSF, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive...
by Kelsey Gilmore-Innis
Realtime Software Engineer at PagerDuty
by Stew O'Connor
Senior Software Engineer at Verizon
ScalaCheck, the property-based testing library for Scala, is a powerful tool for automating test coverage. Out of the box, you can easily generate gobs of test data and automatically shrink failure cases down to specific causes. Who was ever satisfied with out of the box, though?!?
by Marius Eriksen
Infrastructure Engineer at Twitter
Functional programming embraces a kind of conceptual purity which often finds itself at odds with the demands of real world systems. Functional programming works best in a kind of ideal computing environment: heaps are endless, file descriptors don’t exist, partial failure cannot happen, and demands can never exceed a system’s capacity. Inevitably, the real world won’t accommodate: as a system scales, so does this apparent rift.
How do we mend this rift? Where do we have to...
by Jafar Husain
Cross-Team UI Technical Lead at Netflix
by Logan Linn
Software Engineer at Prismatic
by Marius Eriksen
Infrastructure Engineer at Twitter
by Kelsey Gilmore-Innis
Realtime Software Engineer at PagerDuty
by Stew O'Connor
Senior Software Engineer at Verizon
by Werner Schuster
InfoQ Editor Functional Programming, QCon PC, Wolfram
Functional languages are on the rise but real world adoption still faces some problems: finding developers, pitching functional languages to management, immature tooling, etc.
In this panel we'll discuss which issues have an impact on the adoption of functional languages, hear how our speakers have addressed these issues and of course we'll have to for the audience to quiz the panel speakers.
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday, 3 November
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
The newest and biggest Internet architectures
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Real World Functional
Putting functional programming concepts to work in the real world.
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The Future of Mobile
The future of mobile and performance improvements
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Continuous Delivery: From Heroics to Becoming Invisible
Continuous Delivery philosophies, cultures, hiccups, and best practices.
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Unleashing the Power of Streaming Data
This track explores a variety of use-cases, platforms, and techniques for processing and analyzing stream data from the companies deploying them at scale!
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Sponsored Solutions Track I
Tuesday, 4 November
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Engineering for Product Success
Architectures that make products more successful
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Reactive Service Architecture
Reactive, Responsive, Fault Tolerant and More.
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Modern CS In the Real World
How modern CS tackles problems in the real world.
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Applied Machine Learning and Data Science
Understand your big big data!
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Deploying at Scale
Containerizing Applications, Discovering Services, and Deploying to the Grid.
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Sponsored Solutions Track II
Wednesday, 5 November
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Beyond Hadoop
Emerging Big Data Frameworks and Technology
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Scalable Microservice Architectures
This track addresses the ways companies with hundreds of fine-grained web-services (e.g. Netflix, LinkedIn) manage complexity!
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Java at the Cutting Edge
The latest and greatest in the Java ecosystem
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Engineering culture
Successes and failures in creating an engineering culture.
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Next gen HTML5 and JS
How Web Components, the Future of CSS, and more are changing the web.
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Sponsored Solutions Track III
