Francis Toth
Principal Engineer @ Contramap. Supports strongly-typed Functional Programming
Software developer, convinced agilist and trainer with over 15 years experience developing highly scalable web/mobile/backend applications, optimizing work processes and leading dev teams. He is currently interested in software design in general, Functional Programming (Scala, ZIO, Cats, Haskell,...), type-level programming, concurrency and distributed systems. Francis founded Contramap, a Canadian consulting company providing technical expertise regarding functional programming, reactive system design and training, through talks, blog posts, open-source contributions, and development.
Past Activities
Code Mesh V
21.25 - 22.05
How I learned to stop worrying and love Functional Design
Software design is hard but doesn't have to be. Fifteen years ago, my mentor made me realize that maintainable and sustainable design matters immensely. However the amount of principles and best practices one has to know to achieve this is very intimidating. Moreover they tend to be either too vague or way too specific and it requires years and years of practice to get them right. Too often, we end up falling back on "good enough" approaches (which can be pretty limited in the long run) or over-complicated ones resulting from a zealous application of the above guidelines. In fact all these principles and best practices share some common ideas which all together form the fundamental set of guidelines we should all know about to write sustainable code.
In this talk, we'll look at what Functional Design consists of and how it can lead us to techniques to write better software no matter the paradigm you are used to.
OBJECTIVE
Provide a minimal set of the most fundamental software development best practices.
AUDIENCE
Software developers willing to improve the way they tackle software design and interested by Functional Programming/Design