Everybody knows monads by now, so a talk about monads would hardly be worthwhile. Let's take it to the next level: monad transformers. We'll learn what they are, how they naturally emerge in your code base and how to make good use of them in Scala – and maybe even how to create your own.
Lars is a PhD student in Munich, Germany, working in the area of theorem proving. He has been using Scala for quite a while now, and is known as one of the founders of the typelevel initiative which is dedicated to providing principled, type-driven Scala libraries. He also teaches Haskell at university.
