I hit on some practical use cases for functors/applicatives/monads. Pretty fast and quick run through of everything, but you can't learn the world in 30 min. Hopefully, people get some intuition or a better concrete understanding - enough to play with the code. here github.com/DrBoolean/patterns_talk ...

In this video tutorial, Dan Rosen will show you how to use Scala's capacity for monadic design to eliminate repetitive boilerplate in your code. You'll learn to recognize places where the perpetual clutter of null checks, try-catch blocks and more can be hidden within a monad, to make your ...