Scale By The Bay 2019: Justin Heyes-Jones, A Gentle Introduction to Comonads

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Aimed at programmers with some Scala experience that are interested in pure functional programming using the Cats library. The talk begins with an introduction to type classes and how they are implemented in Scala. Next we will look at Show, Functor, Monad and finally the Comonad type class, and finally some practical examples of how you can use Comonads in your own programs. Justin Heyes-Jones Software Developer, YoppWorks Justin is a Scala and pure fp fanatic