Debasish Ghosh

Programmer, father, husband, avid reader, author, occasional speaker at technology conferences and Seinfeld fanboy. Senior member of ACM and loves spending time with his beautiful family. Passionate about technology and open source, loves functional programming, and has been trying to learn math and machine learning. Authored 2 books - (a) DSLs In Action published by Manning in December 2010 and (b) Functional & Reactive Domain Modeling (upcoming summer 2016 from Manning). Tweets at @debasishg, blogs at Ruminations of a Programmer.

Talk

Functional and Algebraic Domain Modeling

Domain modeling is usually implemented using OO design. In this approach of "nouns-first" we design object hierarchies using subtyping to model the various elements of the domain. In this talk we will take a different approach using Scala:

• Start with focus on verbs first
• Think how we can model domain behaviors using pure functions grouped within extensible modules
• Use an algebraic approach towards evolution of modules,the algebra being composed of functions, types & laws
• See how the domain algebra can be constructed from categorical structures like monoids, functors & monads
• Discuss how the functional patterns lead to compositionality - an extremely important quality that scales your domain model.