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Haskell at Facebook

Haskell is widely used in industrial software engineering. In this video, Jeremy Singer interviews Katie Ots from Facebook.

Jeremy recently visited Facebook’s London office, where he met Katie Ots. She is a software engineer at Facebook, developing Haskell code for real-world applications.

Katie explained how and why Haskell is used at Facebook. She is also well-known for her talk on superhero monads. We will explore monads in more detail next week, but you might also want to check out her talk before then.

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