Joan Goyeau

Joan Goyeau

As a functional programming enthusiast, Scala is Joan’s weapon of choice due to its grammatical simplicity combined with its powerful features. He is often contributing to Scala related open source projects like Mill, Kubernetes Client, Avro4s, Wick, Cats…

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Build Robust Data Pipelines with Wick

Talk
13. October 2026, 11:20 - 11:50
Palais Atelier
AI agents now generate many Spark data pipelines, but the untyped DataFrame API makes subtle data bugs easy to ship. This talk introduces Wick, a type-safe Spark API that encodes schema, types, and nullability to make illegal states unrepresentable while preserving Catalyst performance.