Let's dive together into the the world of Star Wars! We'll use the force of F# and R to process publicly available datasets relating to the Star Wars movies to find out who's the most important character in the stories and why were the prequels so unsuccessful. On the way, you'll see why F# is a great language for data science - from preprocessing the data to visualizing them - and you'll also learn how you can use similar data processing pipelines to get interesting insights from your own...

Jet.com is an e-commerce startup competing with Amazon. We're heavy users of F#, and have based our architecture around Azure-based event-driven functional microservices. Over the last several months, we've schooled ourselves on what works and what doesn't for F# and microservices. This session will walk you through the lessons we have learned on our way to developing our platform.