Richard Warburton

• Leader London Java Community
• Empirical technologist and solver of deep-dive technical problems
• Active speaker and writer

Raoul-Gabriel Urma

• Phd candidate in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge
• worked for large companies
• Active speaker and writer

LOCATION: Basel

SPEAKER 1: Richard Warburton   COMPANY:
SPEAKER 2: Raoul-Gabriel Urma   COMPANY:

You may be hearing a lot of buzz around functional programming. For example, Java 8 recently introduced new features (lambda expressions and method references) and APIs (Streams, Optional and CompletableFutures) inspired from functional ideas such as first-class functions, composition and immutability.

However, what does this mean for my existing codebase?

In this talk we show how you can refactor your traditional object-oriented Java to using FP features and APIs from Java 8 in a beneficial manner.

We will discuss:

• How to adapt to requirement changes using first-class functions
• How you can enhance code reusability using currying
• How you can make your code more robust by favouring immutability over mutability
• How you can design better APIs and reduce unintended null pointer exceptions using an optional data type

Richard Warburton

• Leader London Java Community
• Empirical technologist and solver of deep-dive technical problems
• Active speaker and writer

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Raoul-Gabriel Urma

• Phd candidate in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge
• worked for large companies
• Active speaker and writer

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