Monetizing Open Source
The a16z Podcast for 10 April 2017 was on Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software). It was a conversation with James Watters, Martin Casado, and Sonal Chokshi, asking the question of: how do software companies build a viable business model on top of open source?
These are my notes, with my comments in italic.
Day in the Life of a Functional Programmer
Earlier this week I gave a 45 minute talk on “A day in the life of a functional programing”. The title is one Miles came up with when we were brainstorming the talk. The idea was to try to get across some of the exciting ideas in FP to non-Scala developers. We went for ADTs and type classes.
Notes what I said (or probably said) are in this post, along with slides.
Working Across Timezones
Episode 116 of The Collaboration Superpowers podcast was all about working across multiple timezones. It started me thinking about how I’ve been working across timezones for the last ten years.
Scala and 22
Back in 2014, when Scala 2.11 was released, an important limitation was removed: “Case classes with > 22 parameters are now allowed”. This may lead you to think there are no 22 limits in Scala, but that’s not the case. The limit lives on in functions and tuples. This post explores the limit, looks at an example from Slick, and notes two ideas for what you can do about it.
Redirects in Route53/S3
The trick for redirecting domains with AWS is to make sure the bucket name exactly matches the domain name. These notes so that I don’t forget this again.
Exoplanet Safari
This is the talk I gave at Brighton Astro. It’s a tour of six exoplanets I liked the look of.
Scala.js is Important for Cloud Services
More people are using serverless architectures than I would have guessed, and they are getting significant benefits from doing so. Scala is a great fit for these kinds of architectures because it can use the JVM and, thanks for Scala.js, JavaScript runtimes too. This post is a small observation regarding this.
Types Working For You, Not Against You
I’m at QCon London this week, talking about how types work for us in the Functional Programming track. This post contains notes and slides for my talk.
Keep
I’ve found Google Keep to be simple and productive as a way to keep track of things I need to do. This post shows you what I mean.
Using the Atom Editor with Scala
If the IDE or editor you’re using for Scala isn’t working for you, or you want a change of scenery, try another tool. It’s easy to switch. This post looks at Atom.
