Implementing Event-Driven Microservices architecture in Functional lang - Nikhil Barthwal #FnConf 22

Web services are typically stateless entities, that need to operate at scale at large. Functional paradigm can be used to model these web services work and offer several benefits like scalability, productivity, and correctness. This talk describes how to implement Event-Driven Microservices in functional programming languages with examples in F#.

Immutability allows infinite scalability as it eliminates the need to worry about a mutex, a lock, or a race. As functional code is much more terse compared to object-oriented code, it provides productivity benefits. Its strict typing makes writing correct code easy as mismatches of types are caught at compile time.

The objective of the talk is to show how to create a scalable & highly distributed web service in F#, and demonstrate how various characteristics of functional paradigm captures the behavior of such services architecture very naturally.