Who am I?

@odytrice

medium.com/real-world-fsharp

Who am I?

• Work at Cyberspace
• Head of Social/Cognitive Unit
• Responsible for Naijawella Platform

What do I do?

• Web Technologies
• Android (Java/Kotlin)
• Machine Learning (F#/R)
• .NET (C#/F#), NodeJs, Ruby, Java(Kotlin)

Programming Language Evolution

What do we do today?

• Most languages are largely Object Oriented and Imperative
• We give instructions one line at a time
• Applications are meticulously crafted
• Applications today are largely unstable
• Programming is largely an Art

Programming Language Evolution

The Future is Functional

• Declarative model of programming
• Data Transformations and Pipelines 
• Careful mutation and side-effects
• Programming will be more like a Science

Process (SDLC)

What do we do today?

• Waterfall Process
• Big Bang releases
• Manual deployments 

Process (SDLC)

Agile DevOps is the future

• Iterative Process
• Smaller more frequent deployments
• Automated builds and deployments 

Infrastructure Evolution

What do we do today?

• Deploy whole applications to Virtual Machines/Hosting
• Applications are Monoliths
• Applications aren't easily portable/scalable
• "It works on my machine syndrome"

Bare OS/ Virtualization

Infrastructure Evolution

Where are we heading?

• Containers (e.g. Docker)
• Serverless e.g. Functions as a Service, Backend as a service

Docker

Azure Functions

Amazon Lambda

Application Paradigm

What do we do today?

• Expert Systems (with help from Domain Experts)
• Analyze structured Data
• Data is stored in one Database in one format

Application Paradigm

ML will play a strong role in the near future

• "Programming with Data"
• Algorithms are valuable IP
• Analyze both structured and unstructured Data
• Data is heterogenous
• Algorithms smarter than Experts will emerge
  (e.g. Chess)
• Programs with "Intuition"