Mark Galea

Every actor test suite eventually grows a graveyard of sleeps.

Imagine writing your actor logic once (typed messages, functional state, the !

Today marks an exciting milestone with the release of Cats-Actors 2.0.0-RC1.

Functional programming and the actor model are two powerful paradigms in modern software development.

This post is an adaptation of the talk FP to the max, credit goes to John A De Goes.

It’s been one heck of a week!

I have been doing functional programming for quite some time in the small - map, filter, flatMap, for comprehensions, catz etc.

This April Google organised the first Google Cloud Event here in Malta.

One question which often crops up when mentioning Functional Programming (FP) is “But what’s the point of using FP?

Introduced by Alonzo Church in the 1930s, $\lambda$-calculus can be considered as the smallest computation programming language of the world.