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Title: F# in Social Gaming
Proposer: Yan Cui
Type: Case Study
Duration: 90 mins
Description:
F# is an incredibly versatile and expressive language and enables you to solve a wide array of problems succinctly and efficiently. This talk illustrates, with real-world examples, how the Gamesys social team is using F# to build the backend services that support around 1 million Daily Active Users (DAU) and 250 million daily requests across its social games on both mobile and web platforms.

Talk objectives:
- Demonstrate the use of F# to write clean, concise game logic as well as infrastructure code, the same techniques and concepts can be easily applied to other domains;
- Demonstrate how F# can help tackle recurring business problems of:
Efficiency
Correctness
Complexity
Time to Market