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Why Scala?
January 25, 2017 at 7:00 PM
| Location: | 5345 Herzberg Laboratories |
| Audience: | Anyone |
Abstract
Scala is modern, strongly, statically typed, object-functional programming language. In this workshop, we will look at how Scala helps us write safe and performant code while maintaining high level of productivity. Furthermore, we will talk about the Scala ecosystem.
Speaker: Petro Verkhogliad
Time: 19:00, Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
Location: Room 5345, Herzberg Laboratories
Carleton University
Speaker Bio
I work at Lightbend (formerly Typesafe). In my role as a senior consultant, I help others to solve challenging problems. I am passionate about functional programming and applications of AI. At Lightbend, we build and maintain the Akka message-driven runtime, Play web framework, Lagom Microservices framework, and Scala programming language, and we contribute to Apache Spark. Our mission is to help developers build high-performance applications that are message-driven, elastic, resilient and responsive.