Even correct software fails.

So what happens if we shift the focus of functional programming to reliable systems? Let’s attack the hard and ugly set of programming problems, the solutions that don’t naturally fall out from building a neat library. Let’s apply our functional programming toolkit to delivering systems end-to-end.

This is a talk on reliable systems. What it takes to build them, how functional programming can and is being leveraged, and perhaps of more interest, where current approaches are letting us down.

This was the keynote at YOW! LambdaJam, May 2015. , [ deck ]