Cats Effect is a functional side effect library Gavin Bisesi explains what that means, what it gives you, how to use it, and why you should care.

Teikametrics adopted this library last year, and in this talk Gavin discusses how they approach application design using it, both from a green field perspective as well as the techniques used to migrate a living codebase away from akkastreams without "the big rewrite".

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