Last week I gave a talk on functional programming at OSCON: Map, Flatmap and Reduce are Your New Best Friends: Simpler Collections, Concurrency, and Big Data.
Here are the slides:
Map, Flatmap and Reduce are Your New Best Friends: Simpler Collections, Concurrency, and Big Data (#oscon) from Chris Richardson
You can also read about my visit to Portland Food Trucks.
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