FSharp - Luke Merrett

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Timing a Function in F#

This can be useful for capturing how long an operation takes to execute, it also nicely demonstrates how generics operate in F#. Modified from the original version found in the F# Programming Wikibook [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming/Higher_Order_Functions#A_Timer_Function] open System.Diagnostics

F# Data Type Providers in .Net Core

F# Data Type Providers in .Net Core

As one of F#'s killer features; type providers have the ability to make rooms full of developers gasp when shown for the first time. Support has recently been added to the FSharp.Data library [https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Data] for .Net Standard 2.0, allowing us to

F# on AWS Lambda

F# on AWS Lambda

On the 1st December AWS announced support for C# in AWS Lambda [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-c-sharp-support-for-aws-lambda/] which is, by all accounts, great news! However being a bit of an F# fanatic I wondered if, as it does support .Net Core, we could host an F# project as

Let's Play with Azure Functions

Let's Play with Azure Functions

I saw a great talk last night at F# |> Bristol [https://www.meetup.com/FSharpBristol/] by Anthony Brown on how to use Microsoft Azure and F# to build a search engine (full talk here [https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/8901-f-sharpunctional-londoners-meetup]). The talk incorporated Azure Web Jobs, Azure Search, Resource Manager & MBrace.

Binary Search Tree in F#

Binary Search Tree in F#

Having a focus on Software Engineering over core Computer Science concepts; my algorithm-fu is not what it should be! Thankfully there are plenty of books out there and my recent focus on functional programming in F# is helping alleviate that. This weekend I learned how to build a Binary Search

F# Domain Modelling

Over the last few weeks my team and I have been setting up a new QA environment to validate a rather large piece of ongoing work. As part of this I thought it would be prudent to automate our health checks so we can ensure the environment has launched successfully