SF Scala: Jason Swartz, Scala & Functional Microservices

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Scala & Functional Microservices Functional Programming and the Declarative style are popular paradigms for writing stable, high-quality code without the use of mutable state. When designing Microservices, however, developers sometimes forget that data persistence can also be immutable. In this talk we'll see how your microservices data layer can benefit from the functional approach. Speaker: Jason Swartz Jason is an engineer building high-performance GraphQL edge services at Twitch in San Francisco. He's previously worked in Scala at Mesosphere and Netflix, and is the author of the O'Reilly Media book "Learning Scala".