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Sometimes it is useful to know a little more than you may think you need to... April Goncalves teaches us how to optimise our code with math to ultimately improve the performance of our programs. In general, we don’t know much about our functions other than their potential associativity. But what if we knew more about them? In this talk, you will learn how to use algebraic p...

Michael Entin is a Software Engineer at Google, he says this talk would be most useful to someone who writes SQL queries and pipelines, knows nothing about GIS, and wants to enhance the analysis with geospatial data. Given at Scale by the Bay the walk will introduce GIS to uninitiated SQL data engineers. This talk was given my Michael Entin at Scale by the Bay.

Working in programming allows you to move to almost anywhere in the world and use your specific skill set in specialist roles. Most big companies, especially those that are e-commerce based or have built their own platform, need skilled developers and engineers. So where would you like to go next? What about... Switzerland We take a look at the average salary for engineers a...

Software Developer, Speaker and Blogger: Eugene Petrenko gives a talk at Kotlin conference, which takes you on a journey from where Kotlin began to how it has branched out to support different languages today. Since Kotlin began, back in 2010, many features have appeared in the language, some of them are still going, others only show up in the deepest darkest depths of sourc...

Kotlin: for those of us that may not have even heard of Kotlin, it is a programming language that combines object-orientated and functional programming features. The title of Katie Levy and Shelby Cohen's talk at Lambda World is a clever play on words or in this case abbreviation, as they explain what the f Kotlin is. We, as two entry level engineers, took on the challenge o...

During the festive season, many people will be spending time with their family and friends but unfortunately, some do not have this luxury and it can be a really lonely time of the year. This is where admirable initiatives step in to give just a little bit of joy into the season for those who are alone. One of which is The Wonderful Post Project, who help deliver festive che...

Who doesn't want to be able to think less when it comes to Scala? Often described as confusing and complicated, it may seem that you would have to continuously concentrate but Daniel Sivan advises 'thinking less'! After 10 years of Object Orientated Java, 2 years of Functional Programming in Scala was enough to convince me that I could never switch back. But why? The answer ...

Nicolas Rinaudo is the CEO of Besedo. The company offers content moderation tools and services, to online marketplaces, by using AI, automated filters and manual moderation. He is a well-known figure in the Scala community, having spoken at many conferences and the author of his own blog providing type classes. He describes himself as a Scala and FP enthusiast. We asked him ...

Need to learn a simpler way to debug? Find compile time and type level programming difficult? In his talk at Lambda World, Aditya Siram suggests that we should use static introspection, taken from languages like Nim and D to solve these issues we have and he explains why it might be easier than you think. What if compile time and type level programming in functional programm...

What better way to reset for the coming week than to sit down and have a browse through the articles we found most interesting over the past week? Sunday Reads First up we have 'Akka references serialization with Protobufs' by Michał Ostruszka. Michal is a Software Engineer at Software Mill. His article helpfully gives examples of code and he then goes through them, explaini...