How to structure functional code

Let’s talk about design. In one of my first posts I mentioned composability - now...

2019, Sep 17   —  8 minute read

Polymorphic Scala - type bounds

I want to start this blog post with admitting one thing I find very true:...

2019, Aug 19   —  8 minute read

Algebraic data types are all about... data

I mentioned that functional programming is all about a very clear division between data and...

2019, Jul 17   —  6 minute read

Functional error handling in Scala - part 1

Let’s talk about error handling. In functional programming we don’t like side effects. Errors are...

2019, Jul 05   —  9 minute read

For comprehensions

Now that we know all about map and flatMap there is one more thing that’s...

2019, Jun 20   —  6 minute read

Data manipulation is kind of a big deal - part 2

In this post I will continue on data manipulation by showing aggregation/accumulation methods - fold...

2019, Jun 01   —  9 minute read

Data manipulation is kind of a big deal - part 1

Data manipulation and transformation is a kind of a big deal. Now that I shared...

2019, May 18   —  7 minute read

Understand recursion to understand recursion

We can imagine that any non-trivial program will at some stage have to loop over...

2019, May 01   —  7 minute read