Extending your HTTP library with monad transformers – Ross Baker
Channel: Typelevel
Date: 2019-05-03

A tour of monad transformers and how stacking various effects onto IO can extend our HTTP library in new and interesting ways. We’ll review OptionT from last year’s talk, derive something akka-http like with EitherT, and demonstrating tracing with TraceT.

* Material *

Slides: https://rossabaker.github.io/typelevel2019/#1

* Event *

Typelevel Summit Philadelphia, April 2019: https://typelevel.org/event/2019-04-summit-philadelphia/

* About Speaker *

Ross is a Senior Software Engineer at Takt. He began his open source journey on the Scalatra project in 2009, and has gotten purer, more functional, and more typeful with each passing year. He now contributes to http4s and cats among others, and is a member of Typelevel. He is a co-organizer of IndyScala.

* Licensing *

This recording is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).