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Details 🎉 Come along to the London Scala Talks in collaboration with Imperial DoCSoc! 🎉 In this event, you'll hear from Rory Graves and Noel Welsh. Agenda 6:00pm - 🥤 Doors open. Come along and grab a drink! 6:40pm - 🗣️ Rory Graves: A Life in Scala 7:20pm - 🍕 Intermission: Join us for some free food and drinks! Vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options are provided. Let us know if you'd like something special - we'd be happy to accommodate. 7:50pm - 🗣️ Noel Welsh: Designing with Duality 8:30pm - 🥤 Socialising: Grab a drink and let's discuss the talks. 9:00pm - 🍻 Join us in a pub to discuss the talks!

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🗣️Rory Graves: A Life in Scala Software development is full of competing demands—speed, reliability, scalability, flexibility, and affordability. Everyone wants all of them, and they want them now. But building software that delivers on all these fronts is much harder than it seems. Having used Scala as his primary language since 2010 and being deeply involved in its community, Rory has seen how different programming paradigms, tools, and mental models shape software development. This talk will explore key lessons from his career—how to think about software and software careers, the trade-offs of different paradigms and abstraction levels, and why for him Scala hits the sweet spot for building robust, scalable systems easily. Along the way, we will discuss real-world insights on tools, best practices, and how to navigate the ever-changing landscape of software engineering. Whether you’re considering Scala for your future projects or simply thinking about the next steps in your career, this talk will give you perspectives that go beyond the code. ⭐ Speaker ⭐ Rory has been passionate about coding for as long as he can remember—starting with writing games in BASIC far too many years ago. Over a 30+ year career, he has worked across a vast range of systems, from embedded systems to distributed internet-scale bidding engines. His experience spans industries, company sizes (from two-person startups to multinational corporations), and programming paradigms. A long-time advocate of Scala, Rory has contributed to numerous open-source projects, including performance optimizations in the Scala compiler. Today, he works in a hybrid role supporting applied AI and ML research while continuing to mentor developers and share knowledge through public speaking. Outside of software, Rory is a martial artist, a windmill tour guide, and a passionate mentor of programming and public speaking.

🗣️ Noel Welsh: Designing with Duality How can we systematically design software? One way is to use dualities, which allows us to connect implementation techniques, such as FP and OO (otherwise known as data and codata), as different instantiations of the same underlying model. In this talk, we'll explore duality as a design strategy for interpreters, and show that four different approaches to writing an interpreter inner loop fall out as applications of duality. This allows us to pick the implementation that best suits our needs, and makes creating software less a matter of inspiration and more the application of a consistent and repeatable process. ⭐ Speaker ⭐ Noel is developer, mentor, and trainer who works with leading companies in the UK and USA. He fell in love with functional programming when he discovered PLT Scheme (now Racket) shortly after graduation, and the majority of his work since has involved functional programming and, more recently, Scala. ———————————————————— 🗣️ Would you like to present, but are not sure how to start? Give a talk with us and you'll receive mentorship from a trained toastmaster! Get in touch through this form and we'll get you started 🏡 Interested in hosting or supporting us? Please get in touch through this form and we can discuss how you can get involved. 📜 All London Scala User Group events operate under the Scala Community Code of Conduct: [https://www.scala-lang.org/conduct/](https://www.scala-lang.org/conduct/) We encourage each of you to report the breach of the conduct, either anonymously through this form or by contacting one of our team members. We guarantee privacy and confidentiality, as well as that we will take your report seriously and react quickly.

Supported by Our Partners • WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform.  • Formation — Level up your career and compensation with Formation. — In today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I am joined by a senior software engineer and cartoonist, Manu Cornet. Manu spent over a decade at Google, doing both backend and frontend development. He also spent a year and a half at Twitter before Elon Musk purchased it and rebranded it to X. But what Manu is most known for are his hilarious internet comics about the tech world, including his famous org chart comic from 2011 about Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. In today’s conversation, we explore many of his comics, discuss the meaning behind them, and talk about the following topics:  • The viral org chart comic that captured the structure of Big Tech companies • Why Google is notorious for confusing product names • The comic that ended up on every door at Google • How Google’s 20% time fostered innovation—and what projects came from it • How one of Manu’s comics predicted Google Stadia’s failure—and the reasons behind it • The value of connecting to users directly  • Twitter’s climate before and after Elon Musk’s acquisition and the mass layoffs that followed • And more! — Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:01) Manu’s org structure comic  (07:10) Manu’s “Who Sues Who” comic (09:15) Google vs. Amazon comic (14:10) Confusing names at Google (20:00) Different approaches to sharing information within companies (22:20) The two ways of doing things at Google (25:15) Manu’s code reviews comic (27:45) The comic that was printed on every single door of Google (30:55) An explanation of 20% at Google (36:00) Gmail Labs and Google Stadia (41:36) Manu’s time at Twitter and the threat of Elon Musk buying (47:07) How Manu helped Gergely with a bug on Twitter (49:05) Musk’s acquirement of Twitter and the resulting layoffs (59:00) Manu’s comic about his disillusionment with Twitter and Google (1:02:37) Rapid fire round — The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives relevant for this episode: • How Manu creates comics • Consolidating technologies • Is Big Tech becoming more cutthroat? — See the transcript and other references from the episode at ⁠⁠https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/podcast⁠⁠ — Production and marketing by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://penname.co/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email [email protected].

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In this session, learn how Microsoft Copilot for Azure combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with the Azure control plane and services to generate bring a new level of productivity to generate insights, discover new functionality, and simplify operations across your entire Azure portfolio.

Read more: https://aka.ms/Copilot-Azure-preview

How do you think that a start-up will be benefited from this session? The demands to design, operate, optimize and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and applications are growing rapidly in scale, capability, and complexity. This session will help the startups to understand the power of Copilot in Azure which in terms help them do complex task faster and discover new cloud functionality.

The Session will focus on: •Generate Deep Insights instantly for Azure environment using Copilot for Azure •Discover new cloud functionality with the help of Copilot for Azure •Do complex task faster with Copilot for Azure •Using Copilot across the lifecycle: Design, Operate, Optimize, Troubleshoot.

Speaker Bio: Krunal Trivedi Microsoft Azure Expert | Microsoft MVP – Azure | Microsoft Certified Trainer – India RL • The best person to help you with Azure development or infrastructure, Azure DevOps or Azure security, or if you need an Azure architect to design a robust and highly available solution • Authored AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals book under Microsoft Azure Certification Companion for Apress. • From task assignment to containerization and server hosting, he is the best person to help you understand and implement DevOps. • In addition to practical knowledge of Python and its libraries, has extensive knowledge of JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as Angular and React. • Actively working as an IT corporate trainer for 14 years. As a corporate trainer, has contributed to training content development,training curriculum design, day-to-day training planning, and mentoring other trainers. • Trained over 10,000 developers at Accenture-Avanade, JPMC, Microsoft, Standard Chartered, BNP Paribas, PWC, Microsoft, Deloitte DataMatics, SONATA Software, Fidelity Information Services, Atkins, Fiserv, E&Y, Nuance, Cerillion, and Synoptek over the course of his 14-year career. • On a regular basis, he writes articles on various technologies for his personal website as well as C-Sharp Corner. • Also active in Microsoft community development activities and frequently speaks for various user groups, community events, and technology conferences in India and around the world.

Social Handle: X : @TrainerKrunal

You can leverage Azure OpenAI on your data to provide powerful AI search capabilities, and then deploy that into Copilot studio, linking your low copilot to Azure AI resources and the latest GPT LLMs.

How do you think that a start-up will be benefited from this session? Nowadays, organizations and startups prefer to deal with customized domain-specific models rather than generic large language models. This session will demonstrate an alternate method for producing replies from LLMs with the own data and discards general information, as well as how to input their own data using the Azure AI Search service and Azure OpenAI. Attendees will also receive an overview of how to use Copilot studio.

The Session will focus on Injection your own data to Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search Service, Copilot Studio.

Read More: https://aka.ms/Azure-OpenAI-ForGenerativeAnswers https://aka.ms/Azure-OpenAI-OnYourData

Speaker Bio: Krunal Trivedi Microsoft Azure Expert | Microsoft MVP – Azure | Microsoft Certified Trainer – India RL • The best person to help you with Azure development or infrastructure, Azure DevOps or Azure security, or if you need an Azure architect to design a robust and highly available solution • Authored AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals book under Microsoft Azure Certification Companion for Apress. • From task assignment to containerization and server hosting, he is the best person to help you understand and implement DevOps. • In addition to practical knowledge of Python and its libraries, has extensive knowledge of JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as Angular and React. • Actively working as an IT corporate trainer for 14 years. As a corporate trainer, has contributed to training content development,training curriculum design, day-to-day training planning, and mentoring other trainers. • Trained over 10,000 developers at Accenture-Avanade, JPMC, Microsoft, Standard Chartered, BNP Paribas, PWC, Microsoft, Deloitte DataMatics, SONATA Software, Fidelity Information Services, Atkins, Fiserv, E&Y, Nuance, Cerillion, and Synoptek over the course of his 14-year career. • On a regular basis, he writes articles on various technologies for his personal website as well as C-Sharp Corner. • Also active in Microsoft community development activities and frequently speaks for various user groups, community events, and technology conferences in India and around the world.

Social Handle: X : @TrainerKrunal

This book, "Mastering Geospatial Development with QGIS 3.x", is your comprehensive guide to becoming skilled in QGIS, an open-source GIS software. Covering functionalities of QGIS 3.4 and 3.6, you will advance your knowledge in spatial data analysis, styling, and spatial database management through practical examples and in-depth discussions. What this Book will help me do Understand the latest features and updates in QGIS 3.6. Master spatial data styling for impactful geographic visualizations. Learn to create and manage spatial databases and GeoPackages. Automate workflows using QGIS's graphical modeler and Python scripting. Develop custom QGIS plugins to extend its capabilities. Author(s) This book is written by a team of GIS experts with extensive experience in spatial data analysis and QGIS. Authors include professionals with GISP credentials who have taught GIS at various levels. With their deep understanding of QGIS and practical teaching approach, they aim to make premium GIS knowledge accessible to all. Who is it for? The book is ideal for GIS professionals seeking to enhance their QGIS expertise. Beginners looking to establish a firm foundation in GIS and QGIS will also benefit. Developers interested in extending QGIS capabilities using Python will find invaluable guidance here. Whether for career growth, project management, or academic purposes, this book suits users aspiring to excel in geospatial development.