Growing A Functional Discipline • Susan Potter • YOW! 2019

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2019. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Susan Potter - Distributed Systems Engineer at Referential Labs @SusanPotter RESOURCES https://github.com/mbbx6spp https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanpotter https://twitter.com/SusanPotter https://mastodon.social/@SusanPotter ABSTRACT Adopting functional programming in an existing software development organization is plagued with difficulties. Challenges include how to manage, maintain, and evolve existing systems with your new vision in a sustainable way while building expertise in a systematic functional mindset. This talk reviews some of the lessons learned over several years of growing a functional discipline at primarily mainstream approach organizations to building backend services and infrastructure in Scala and Haskell to satisfy business needs where mainstream software development approaches were failing to produce. Technical leaders, engineering managers, and individual software developers should expect to learn some approaches to: • reducing risks associated with introducing new methods to an organization • growing a learning culture from the ground up with support from the top • transitioning from ad-hoc workaround-based implementations with example-based usages to more defined understanding of the problem domain by considering domain and system properties and translating that from business to code at multiple levels. [...] RECOMMENDED BOOKS Richard Feldman • Elm in Action • https://amzn.to/387kujI Tim McNamara • Rust in Action • https://amzn.to/3ux2R9u Jeremy Fairbank • Programming Elm • https://amzn.to/2WhZCE8 Wolfgang Loder • Web Applications with Elm • https://amzn.to/3jblQ3q Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript • https://amzn.to/3y75jBS https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #FunctionalProgramming #FP #SystemsEngineering #Scala #Haskell #SusanPotter Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1