Michael Sperber

CEO of Active Group

We do most of our software development using functional programming and I am a co-founder of the leading German-language blog on the subject.

I co-organize the BOB Developer Conference on February 28, 2020 in Berlin.

I'm on the steering committee of ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (FARM).

I'm on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Functional Programming.

Past Activities

Michael Sperber
Code Mesh V

Tutorial/ 06 Nov 2020
13.00 - 16.30

Functional Software Architecture

The last 10 years have seen a boom of functional-programming adoption for sizeable industrial projects. This is despite the fact that precious little has been written about the architecture of large functional programs. Many architectural styles and techniques common in the Enterprise world can’t be applied directly when using functional programming, or require significant changes. On the other hand, the benefits on architecture from using functional programming are significant: Design methodologies like Domain-Driven Design can be adapted to using functional programming, and then extended using combinator models and denotational design. The tutorial gives an overview of design and architecture techniques available to the functional software architect.

EXPERTISE

Basic software development experience

COURSE DURATION

3,5 hours

TARGET AUDIENCE

Software architects, developers

PREREQUISITES

Basic programming skills in a functional language.

OBJECTIVES

understand architectural aspects of functional programming
know fundamentally functional modelling techniques
know where traditional architecture and functional architecture connect

COVERS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS

We'll pick 2-4 of the following topics, based on audience preference:

functional architecture overview
introduction to Haskell, Clojure, F#, Racket, Elixir, Scala, Erlang
controlled effects
combinator models
embedded DSLs
monads for the working programmer
property-based testing
DDD vs. FP
"I'll never convince my boss to use this."
Denotational Domain-Driven Design
Programming the Day after Tomorrow: Dependent Types

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND THIS COURSE

Know functional programming, but are unsure how to do an entire functional application
Know DDD and functional programming, would like to connect the two
Want to get effects under control

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