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  "textContent": "# Two Haskell Talks from Bellroy at Melbourne Compose Group May Meetup\n\nWe’re thrilled to have two Bellroy Haskellers presenting a double-feature at Melbourne Compose Group.\n\nMichael Webb (CTO) will share how Bellroy built and scaled a $120M+ brand with a tiny Haskell team.\n\nJack Kelly (Staff Engineer) will walk through deploying Haskell in the cloud with an opinionated guide to Haskell on AWS Lambda.\n\nWhether you’re using Haskell in production, curious about serverless, or just want to see how a small team moves fast without fear, come along!\n\n_Details Below_\n\n# The Talks\n\n### _Michael Webb - CTO_\n\n## Maximum Agency, Minimum Footguns\n\n_Lessons from scaling a $120M+ carry brand with a tiny engineering team_\n\nAt Bellroy, we’ve built a small engineering team that moves fast, ships confidently, and hands real power to the people closest to the work - content editors, ops staff, marketers - without lying awake worrying about what they might break.\n\nThe secret isn’t process, approval chains, or change management theatre. It’s that we’ve encoded the constraints that actually matter directly into our tools - many of them built in Haskell - and trusted our people with everything else.\n\nThis talk is about the philosophy behind that approach: what it means to design for agency rather than safety, what cultural practices make such an approach practical and why a type system is the most underrated management tool in a company’s arsenal.\n\n### _Jack Kelly - Staff Engineer_\n\n## Lambda on Lambda: Running Serverless Haskell Functions on AWS\n\nAWS Lambda is AWS’s\n“function-as-a-service” offering, where your code runs in an isolated\n“microVM” on AWS-managed infrastructure and you pay only for the\nresources used while your code runs.\n\nFitting your binaries into this model means making your code talk to\nsome internal AWS APIs, and luckily the Haskell ecosystem has some\ngood tools for doing this.\n\nIn this talk, I’ll explain at a high level what AWS Lambda is, how it\nexecutes your code, and then provide an opinionated guide and demo for\ngetting your Haskell functions into the cloud.\n\n# When and Where\n\nFormat: Strictly IRL\nWhen: Thursday 21 May 2026, 6:00pm – 8:00pm\nWhere: Kathleen Syme Centre, Activity Room 2, Carlton (Melbourne Victoria, Australia)\nRSVP: luma\n\n# About Melbourne Compose Group\n\nMelbourne Compose Group is the monthly in-person meetup for functional programmers in Melbourne, every 3rd Thursday of the month in Carlton.\n\nAs always, newcomers welcome.",
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