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Ben Christensen, Software Engineer at Netflix

Ben Christensen

Biography: Ben Christensen

Ben Christensen is a software engineer on the Netflix API Platform team responsible for fault tolerance, performance, architecture and scale while enabling millions of customers to access the Netflix experience across more than 800 different device types. Specializing in Java since the 90s and through years of web and server-side development Ben has gained particular interest and skill in building maintainable, performant, high-volume, high-impact systems. Prior to Netflix, Ben was at Apple in the iTunes division making iOS apps and media available to the world.

Twitter: @benjchristensen

Presentation: Functional Reactive Programming with RxJava

Track: The Right Language for the Job / Time: Wednesday 15:50 - 16:40 / Location: Lille Sal, Musikhuset

Rxjava is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM that supports Java 6+, Clojure, Scala, Groovy, JRuby and Java 8 lambdas.

Learn how the Netflix API uses RxJava (http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/02/rxjava-netflix-api.html) to implement highly concurrent web services against asynchronous data sources without blocking, synchronization or thread-safety concerns by using declarative functional reactive composition.

Come see what functional reactive programming looks like, how it fits into Java, what use cases it addresses and real-world examples of how it can become a tool in your application development.