Conversations about Software Engineering

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Eric Normand on Functional Thinking

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In this conversation about software engineering, Lucas Dohmen talks with Eric Normand. Eric first explains the origins of his book, Grokking Simplicity. He explains how to think in calculations, actions, and data. Lucas asks him about real-life situations dealing with concurrency and how he would solve them thinking functionally. Then they dive deep into their conversation about immutability, type systems, and learning from other communities.

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Show Notes

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Chapter Marks:

  • 00:00:15 Introduction
  • 00:06:10 Functional Thinking
  • 00:19:27 Calculations, Actions, Events
  • 00:26:56 Concurrency and Immutability
  • 00:37:05 Immutable Facts and GDPR
  • 00:40:46 Object Oriented and Functional Programming
  • 00:59:30 Type System
  • 01:25:11 Learning from other communities

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