OOP VS FUNCTIONAL:
STOP THE FIGHT AND START BUILDING
MESSAGE DRIVEN
SERVERLESS APPLICATIONS
November 20th 2018 – Codemotion, Berlin
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John McCharty [1927-2011]
(image by "null0" CC BY-SA 2.0)
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LISP
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(image By Lisp CC BY-SA 4.0)
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XKCD - Permanent link to this comic
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(print "Hello world")
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LIS(t) P(rocessor)
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LISP was the first homoiconic
programming language
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XKCD - Permanent link to this comic
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…LISP has jokingly been described as “the most
intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I think that
description a great compliment because it transmits
the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a
number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking
previously impossible thoughts…
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Edsger W. Dijkstra,1972 Turing Award Lecture
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Alan Kay [1940-present]
(image by Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A. - Alan Kay, CC BY 2.0)
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SMALLTALK
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(Byte Magazine Vol. 6 No. 8 cover, August 1981)
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The problem with object-oriented languages
is they've got all this implicit environment that
they carry around with them. You wanted a
banana but what you got was a gorilla
holding the banana and the entire jungle.
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Joe Amstrong, Coders at Work (ISBN 978-1430219484)
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Transcript show: 'Hello, world!'.
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I'm sorry that I long ago coined
the term "objects" for this topic
because it gets many people
to focus on the lesser idea.
The big idea is "messaging"
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Alan Kay, 1998 Squeak-dev mailing list
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Smalltalk
is about making
small talk in a kind way
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XKCD - Permanent link to this comic
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Smalltalk #doesNotUnderstand
is sent first to the receiver
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LISP SMALLTALK
Focus on data structures Focus on messaging
Functions are used to organise and compose
transformation of data structures
Classes are used to organise behaviour and
object to persist data
Reflection through homoiconicity Reflection through meta-models
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SERVERLESS COMPUTING…
…the most intelligent way to misuse
a bunch of computers
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“The Internet would not have happened nearly as
soon as it did except for the fact that John initiated
the development of time-sharing systems. We keep
inventing new names for time-sharing. It came to be
called servers.... Now we call it cloud computing.
That is still just time-sharing. John started it."
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Lester Earnest, October 28, 2011 Los Anagels Times
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I HAVE A LONG STORY OF COMPUTER MISUSE…
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CPU 6502 @ 1.023MHz
Memory 64 KB RAM (up to 1 MB)
NATURAL LANGUAGE PARSER
80s
CPU 68LC040 @ 25 MHz
Memory 4 MB RAM (up to 36 MB)
CODING IN SMALLTALK
90s
CPU Core i7 @ 2,7 GHz
Memory 16 GB RAM)
RUNNING A FULL K8S
00s

AWS LAMBDA SERVERLESS COMPUTING
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Image from AWS Lambda official page
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Nitro (custom kvm on top of custom asisc)
DO YOU STILL THINK OPTIMISATION IS THE KEY?
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Node
Pod
JVM
Node
YOUR CODE IS HERE!!!
Fabio Tiriticco Akka Cluster versus Kubernetes: Clustering Solutions Showdown

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01_raw_data
metadata
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SERVERLESS
Send
meaningful data structure
to topics & queues
Use namespaces to group
your data and functions
Move from monitoring to observability
(notify what’s going on
or what you expect to happen next
with meaningful messages)
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LISP SMALLTALK
Focus on data structures Focus on messaging
Functions are used to organise
and compose transformation of
data structures
Classes are used to organise
behaviour and object to persist
data
Reflection through
homoiconicity
Reflection through meta-
models

“The key in making great and growable systems is much
more to design how its modules communicate rather than
what their internal properties and behaviors should be.
Think of the internet -- to live, it (a) has to allow many
different kinds of ideas and realizations that are beyond
any single standard and (b) to allow varying degrees of
safe interoperability between these ideas.”
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Alan Kay, 1998 Squeak-dev mailing list
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$ tail -f questions
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