Tag: Functional programming
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OTP as the core of your application
Posted on August 21, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this two part series, we'll be taking a deep dive into what exactly the Actor Model is, how exactly the Actor Model is implemented in Elixir/Erlang and how we can leverage this pattern in pragmatic way from within our applications. By Alex Koutmos.
Tags software-architecture performance frameworks elixir web-development functional-programming
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Railway oriented programming in Scala
Posted on August 1, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
An article by Pierre Jambet about his discovery of Railway Oriented Programming (ROP).
Tags scala software-architecture functional-programming code-refactoring software java
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MiniScaffold, setting up a new F# project the easy way
Posted on July 2, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Setting up a new project can be a pain. Especially if you want to split it into separate folders for clarity. You might want a src folder for the project itself, a test folder for the unit and integration tests, a docs folder for documentation. By Simon Taite.
Tags app-development programming functional-programming
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How to reuse AWS S3 bucket for multiple serverless framework deployments
Posted on June 25, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
When using Serverless Framework, the default behaviour is the creation of a S3 bucket for each serverless.yml file, since they are treated as separated projects. By Eduardo Rabelo on serverlessguru.com.
Tags serverless functional-programming software-architecture cloud aws
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Architecturing an App with functional reactive programming
Posted on June 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Whenever a team is about to start a new project, there's one question that always comes up: "Which architecture are we going to follow?" And every developer tends to have their own opinion on the matter, which makes perfect sense, because it's such an important topic. By Vincent Pradeilles.
Tags agile web-development functional-programming software-architecture kotlin
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5 reasons Elixir can be your competitive advantage
Posted on June 13, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Elixir is a relatively new programming language. Release of v1.0 was announced on September 18, 2014. Elixir has been trusted by several companies to be part of their toolset. Some of those well-known companies that publicly shared they use Elixir to build their products are Pinterest, PagerDuty and Wistia. By Elvio Vicosa.
Tags elixir web-development functional-programming software-architecture
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How to design for panic resilience in Rust
Posted on June 10, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Don't panic! Learn to build quality software resilient to errors. In this story, we discuss methods for panic resilience in Rust applications, to make quality software users can rely upon. By Luke I. Wilson.
Tags programming functional-programming learning performance
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Scaling up with Elixir
Posted on May 30, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
It's exciting when your website or platform gets a spike in traffic -- that is, unless it fails. A disappointing web experience can quickly encourage new users to look elsewhere for an alternative that is faster and more responsive to their needs. By Nathan Long.
Tags elixir programming functional-programming erlang
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Pymp, OpenMP-like Python programming
Posted on May 22, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Ever since Python was created, users have been looking for ways to achieve multiprocessing with threads, which the Python global interpreter lock (GIL) prevents.By Jeff Layton.
Tags python app-development functional-programming programming performance
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Word search Kata in F#
Posted on May 9, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article by Paweł Zelmański about his journey with a first bigger kata programmed in F#. The term 'Kata' means a structured way of doing things or practice. It has its roots in Japanese martial arts where learners spend much of their time practicing drills to improve specific moves.
Tags functional-programming programming how-to
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Railway oriented programming in Kotlin
Posted on April 30, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Railway Oriented Programming (ROP) is a functional programming technique that allows sequential execution of functions, not necessarily synchronous. The key concept is that each function can only accept and return Container of either Success or Failure. Failure wraps Throwable type and Success can be of any type. Published by Tonje Krosby.
Tags java functional-programming programming kotlin
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7 Easy functional programming techniques in Go
Posted on February 27, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Deepu K Sasidharan put together this article for Go developers interested in functional programming. Do not worry, you don't have to learn functional programming oriented languages like Haskell or Clojure(or even Scala or JavaScript though they are not pure functional programming languages) since Go has you covered and this post is for you.
Tags golang programming functional-programming