F# is a 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