Lamda expressions were introduced in Java 8 and have been around for a while. They are in my opinion one of the better features of Java 8, allowing for a more functional approach to writing code, and thus enabling most of the java 8 features. So let’s take a closer look at lambda’s and see what they are, how to reason about them, and why they are a good addition.

This is a blog post that tries to give a pragmatic explanation about what a monad is, and what problem it tries to solve. This post is written by Ties van de Ven and Justus Brugman.