Introducing A Functional Language At Work

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A retrospective compares concrete experiments: a Scala pilot fails—SBT builds are slow, JVM runtime and flexible idioms clash with a massive cloud infra, and management issues end with a no more Scala mandate; an Elm rewrite ships an internal product in a month with 500 users and far fewer defects; Go spreads too early and stalls delivery; Haskell is used as an API spec language; Clojure succeeds when teams provide client libraries and work with infrastructure.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:34Benefits
3. 1:07Easier to Reason About
4. 2:24Less Debugging
5. 2:50Better In Every Way
6. 3:20The Company
7. 3:55High Growth
8. 4:30Context
9. 5:46Scala
10. 6:52Java
11. 7:09Everyone is writing different
12. 7:55Slow builds
13. 8:47The bottom line
14. 9:02The bigger item
15. 9:39No more Scala
16. 10:33Takeaways
17. 10:48The Bigger Thing
18. 11:17The Bigger Issue
19. 11:39The Common Question
20. 11:51FP Better Than The Alternative
21. 12:08Opportunity Cost
22. 12:24Misgauge
23. 13:05Maturity Problems
24. 13:59Rewind
25. 14:48One Obvious Way
26. 15:22Python was in Kirk
27. 16:04Asynchronous communication
28. 17:20ObjectOriented Programming
29. 18:36Lambda Comp
30. 18:53Golang
31. 19:32Early Release
32. 20:07Lack of Flexibility
33. 20:53Pythonic Feel
34. 21:31Infrastructure Engineering
35. 23:15Elm
36. 23:58Nick
37. 24:47Shipping in a month
38. 25:16Reimplemented bug
39. 25:38No critical bugs
40. 26:00Major refactoring
41. 26:49Product selection
42. 27:22Project takeaways
43. 27:41Management champion
44. 28:18A bad idea right
45. 28:39No defects
46. 28:57Success
47. 29:33Haskell
48. 30:14Experiments
49. 30:39Immutable Data
50. 31:32Prototyping
51. 32:02Value
52. 32:51Infrastructure Operations
53. 33:11Ruby
54. 33:33Get buyin
55. 33:49Key takeaways
56. 34:13Prove value
57. 34:28Lower risk
58. 34:49Go slow
59. 35:06Prove something
60. 35:21Learn first
61. 35:34Befriend
62. 36:14Hiring
63. 37:04Functional Paradigms
64. 37:22Become a Promoter
65. 37:32Make it Happen
66. 38:02Prove Some Value
67. 38:26Thompsons First Rule

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