Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 179 | Eric Torreborre - Effects, Specs
Guest:
Eric Torreborre talks with Dave Rael about the world, family, functional programming, and understanding
Eric Torreborre is a backend Scala developer working for Zalando, in Germany. After having been a long-time follower of the OO cult he has now become a FP devotee. His main open-source project, specs2, is a testing library for Scala and has been an incredible learning ground for him. When he finally learns something, he tries to spread the knowledge around at conferences or meetups. He will be talking about using the Eff monad for structuring micro-services at Scala eXchange in London in December 2016.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Eric Torreborre
- - Leadership roles and preferences
- - Motivated to learn Scala and the beginning of specs2
- - specs2 - why Eric created it and what it is
- - The things that "light Eric up"
- - How Eric got started in software
- - Eric's path to functional programming
- - Advice for getting exposed to functional programming
- - Eric's story of failure - Designing a systems with layers of complexity that couldn't scale - combining reads and writes
- - Eric's success story - specs2, creating something useful and getting a lot of feedback - meeting people
- - Negative feedback, building for yourself, and questioning the motives and intentions of others
- - Eric's family and having kids living in very different places
- - How Eric stays current with what he needs to know
- - The value of books
- - Eric's book recommendation
- - The things that have Eric most excited
- - Eric's sources of pain and suffering
- - The things about which Eric likes to geek out
- - Eric's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Eric
Resources:
- specs2
- The Essence of the Iterator Pattern - Jeremy Gibbons and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
- Eric's Blog Post on The Essence of the Iterator Pattern
- Dave Thomas on Developer On Fire
- Andy Hunt on Developer On Fire
- Eric's Talk - The Eff Monad - One Monad to Rule Them All
- Embedding effect systems in Haskell
- John De Goes on Developer On Fire
- Scott Hanselman on Developer On Fire
- Eric's Practical Eff Monad for Microservices Talk at Scala eXchange 2016
Eric's book recommendation:
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) - Tom DeMarco
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) - Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen
- Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials) - Geoffrey A. Moore
Eric's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Take care of your body
- Stay curious and try things
- Find people that complement you and your abilities
