I've been teaching F# for over seven years now, both in the public F# FastTrack course that we run at SkillsMatter in London and in various custom trainings for private companies. Every time I teach the F# FastTrack course, I modify the material in one way or another. I wrote about some of this interesting history last year in an fsharpWorks article. The course now has a stable half-day introduction to the language and a stable focus on the ideas behind functional-first programming, but there are always ne[...]

Presently sponsored by: CloudZero enables cost as a real time operational metric for FinDevOps teams, exposing the financial ramifications of Serverless and Cloud-Native engineering decisions. Key benefits include cost-focused DevOps and real-time mapping of cost, behavior and resource relationships. Hi, welcome to the first weekly update of November! MEAP update for Production-Ready Serverless There has been delays in publishing the rest of the VPC unit the last two weeks as my editor has been away. But w[...]

Presently sponsored by: Binaris. Binaris is a serverless platform that enables developers to build entire applications out of functions. Binaris utilizes supercomputing technologies to redesign the stack for functions. This makes Binaris functions run faster than any other cloud platform today and opens the door for new use-cases for functions as well as dramatic improvements in efficiency and reduction in runtime costs. Hey, just a quick note to say that I will be speaking at CodeMotion Berlin in November[...]

Presently sponsored by: Binaris. Binaris is a serverless platform that enables developers to build entire applications out of functions. Binaris utilizes supercomputing technologies to redesign the stack for functions. This makes Binaris functions run faster than any other cloud platform today and opens the door for new use-cases for functions as well as dramatic improvements in efficiency and reduction in runtime costs. Hi, welcome to another weekly update! MEAP update for Production-Ready Serverless We h[...]

In May, I joined the School of Computing at the University of Kent as a Lecturer (equivalent of Assistant Professor in some other countries). When applying for the job, I spent a lot of time thinking about how to best explain the kind of research that I would like to do. This blog post is a brief summary of my ideas. I'm interested in way too many things, including philosophy and design and data journalism, but this post will be mainly about programming language research. After all, I'm a member of the Pro[...]