FSharp 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 open System.Diagnostics type TimedOperation<'T> = {millisecondsTaken:int64; returnedValue:'T} let timeOperation<'T>
FSharp 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 for .Net Standard 2.0, allowing us to use type providers for a range of
FSharp F# on AWS Lambda On the 1st December AWS announced support for C# in 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 well? Building Blocks All code in hosted
FSharp Let's Play with Azure Functions I saw a great talk last night at F# |> Bristol by Anthony Brown on how to use Microsoft Azure and F# to build a search engine (full talk here). The talk incorporated Azure Web Jobs, Azure Search, Resource Manager & MBrace. However let's forget all that, the real meat
FSharp 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
FSharp 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
