Power and Perils of Functional, Reactive, and Asynchronous Programming
We keep hearing the chants, functional programming is awesome, reactive programming is superb, asynchronous programming is the future, reactive programming is dead, functional programming will result in poor performance, and so on. There is partial truth in almost all those statements, but not understanding the details can lead to poor judgement and loosing out on the benefits of the different paradigms.
In this presentation we will take an objective look at each of these paradigms, understand their powers and also their weakness, where they are alive, and in what context they may appear to be dead, and when we should leverage these, and when we may want to look for alternatives.
About Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
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