Scalæ By the Bay

You have a mission to write software. You have chosen to use Scala, or perhaps, Scala has been chosen for you. Scala abundance of features offers many potential paths to your goal. How do you find your way? In this talk, Bill Venners will look draw on his almost ten years of Scala programming to give insights into using it effectively. First, he'll try to convince you to strive for the elusive property of "simplicity" in your code and designs. Then, he'll show you how you can achieve simplicity in design if Scala is the language in which you must express your design.