Fear not the unknown, my friend. And go FP.

For newcomers with a Java background, Functional Programming can seem counter-intuitive at first. Using immutable values and data structures, handling errors without exceptions, or avoiding dependency injection frameworks, not to mention dealing with abstractions like product/union types or monads - all these can blow your mind. But fear not the unknown, my friend.

In this session I’m going to demonstrate to you a couple of common battle-proven techniques from the Scala (and FP) world that can be easily applied to modern Java. Come and see how you can write even better code!