Anna Wykes continues a series on Scala for data engineers:
This is the second of my blogs in the Scala Parlour Series, in which we explore Scala, and why it is great for Data Engineering. If you haven’t already, please check out the first in the series here, in which you can read all about the core concepts of Scala, including who uses it and why
In this article we will explore monads within the Functional Programming (FP) paradigm, and how they can be used in Scala to aid Data Engineering.
Anna explains monads quite well here. This is a topic which is notoriously in how people perceive its difficulty, but conceptually it’s not as difficult as people take it to mean…if you understand a few concepts coming in.