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Manuel is an independent software consultant with a passion for building web-based systems, both back-end and front-end.

He's the author of "Reactive web-applications" (Manning) and started working with Scala, Akka and Play Framework in 2010 after spending a long time with Java.

He lives in Vienna, where he is co-organiser of the local Scala User Group.
He's enthusiastic about the Scala-based technologies and the vibrant community, and is looking for ways to spread its usage in the industry.

He's also scuba-diving since age 6, and can't quite get used to the lack of sea in Austria.

05.08.2015

3 things you must know to think reactive

Three concepts from the world of functional programming that are at the core of building reactive applications.

LOCATION: Luzern

AGENDA:17:15 - 18:30h: Talk incl. Q/A
Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.

SPEAKER: Manuel Bernhardt   COMPANY: Freelance Software Consultant
SLIDES: 150804-05_JUGch-ThinkingReactive.pdf

Over the past few years, web-applications have started to play an increasingly important role in our lives. We expect them to be always available and the data to be always fresh.
This shift into the realm of real-time data processing is now transitioning to physical devices, and Gartner predicts that the Internet of Things will grow to an installed base of 26 billion units by 2020.

As reactive architectures gain in popularity, more and more developers find themselves faced with the challenge of "thinking reactive". To leave behind the well-known concepts of mutable, object-oriented, imperative and synchronous programming in favour of immutable, functional, declarative and asynchronous programming requires quite a mind shift and it isn't obvious to take the plunge.

In this talk we will explore three concepts from the world of functional programming that are at the core of building reactive applications: immutability, higher-order functions and manipulating immutable collections.
We will first see how the "traditional" mutable, object-oriented approach of doing things can be problematic when it comes to multi-core programming, and then how to apply them to asynchronous systems.

LEVEL OF TALK: Beginner
LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en


Manuel is an independent software consultant with a passion for building web-based systems, both back-end and front-end.

He's the author of "Reactive web-applications" (Manning) and started working with Scala, Akka and Play Framework in 2010 after spending a long time with Java.

He lives in Vienna, where he is co-organiser of the local Scala User Group.
He's enthusiastic about the Scala-based technologies and the vibrant community, and is looking for ways to spread its usage in the industry.

He's also scuba-diving since age 6, and can't quite get used to the lack of sea in Austria.


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