Not so much "standing on the shoulders of giants" as skulking behind them with a notebook and a pen, this talk will demonstrate the construction of a functional DSL to interact with a bespoke Java data source API using a real-life case study. Implement tra...

Functional Programming has had it's 15 minutes of fame - again. Now it's data's turn - again. Obviously the best way to stop this cycle is to merge the two. Let's put functional concepts into the database! Reducing over relationships in graphs takes our da...

Riak is one of the new breed of no-SQL database management systems, which has begun to replace relational databases for some applications. Riak is a distributed key-value store, inspired by Amazon’s Dynamo, designed for applications where scalability, low ...

Despite Moore's "law", uniprocessor clock speeds have now stalled. Rather than single processors running at ever higher clock speeds, it is common to find dual-, quad- or even hexa-core processors, even in consumer laptops and desktops. Haswell, Intel's f...

How best to blend a domain-specific language into a host language? For the domain of databases, the old question of how to achieve language integrated query is receiving renewed attention, in part because of its support through Microsoft's LINQ framework. ...

We are now used too being roused out of bed by news of the latest serious Internet security alert or major data leak. The software services we now use are tremendously complex, and mash together a complex spectrum of policy and mechanisms. I'll talk about ...

Implementing a toy Lisp interpreter is practically a rite of passage for the budding computer scientist. This hallowed tradition is described in detail in "Lisp in Small Pieces," the seminal work on the making of Lisps, but everybody loves a tl;dr, so let'...