What's Different in Dotty
Explore Dotty, the next iteration of Scala, with Martin Odersky. Learn about major changes, innovations, and new features that enhance program legibility and safety in this comprehensive keynote.
Visualize Your Data Structures
Explore Reftree, a Scala library for creating diagrams and animations of data structures. Learn how functional programming techniques enhance visualization implementation.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Frontend
Explore Scala.js for web frontend development, its benefits, and the future of cross-platform development using Scala for Android and iOS, offering a unified language solution.
The Futures are Calling and I Must Choose
Explore Scala's Future types, their variants, and best practices for selection and interoperability. Learn about lazy execution, combining effects, and avoiding common pitfalls in asynchronous programming.
Deus Ex Scala - Finding a Home for Scala in the Corporate Machine
Exploring Scala's adoption in a high-performance financial exchange environment, discussing technical challenges, team building, and the benefits of using Scala in a risk-averse corporate setting.
Numbers Every Scala Programmer Should Know
Explore performance optimization in Scala, covering cache hit rates, data alignment, immutability trade-offs, synchronization, and blocking. Learn to analyze and improve code efficiency for modern infrastructures.
Top Mistakes When Writing Reactive Applications
Explore common pitfalls and best practices in reactive application development, focusing on actor systems, network partitions, graceful shutdown, and distributed transactions.
Scary Build Tool? Automate More with SBT
Explore sbt plugin development to enhance Scala project automation. Learn build architecture concepts and streamline your workflow by leveraging sbt's powerful features.
Introduction to Code Generation with Scalameta
Explore scalameta for code generation in Scala. Learn basics, composable DSL, and advanced use cases. Includes live demo and discussion on potential applications and comparison with traditional macros.
The Last 10 Percent
Comprehensive guide to publishing and maintaining Scala libraries, covering essential steps from code completion to open-source release, including automation, testing, documentation, and versioning.
Stream Away with Scala
Explore functional programming concepts for streaming data processing, focusing on real-time robot control using Scala. Learn about Potassium framework, Akka actors, and data visualization with React and Scala.js.
Readers vs Constructors - Dependency Injection Showdown
Explore dependency injection approaches in Scala, comparing methods like Cake Pattern, constructors, service locators, Reader Monad, and Java solutions. Learn pros and cons to make informed project decisions.
Managing Consistency, State and Identity in Distributed Microservices
Explore techniques for handling consistency, state, and identity in distributed microservices. Learn about idempotency, eventual consistency, CAP theorem, and distributed domain design for robust system architecture.
Practical Eff Monad for Microservices
Learn to apply the Eff monad in REST microservices, decomposing components like authentication and database access. Discover how to define precise interfaces and handle concerns such as logging and asynchronous execution.
Dotty is Coming
Prepare for the next generation of Scala with insights on language features, library changes, and migration strategies to smoothly transition your codebase.
Elegant Scala Builds and Bootstrapping Dotty with CBT
Explore elegant solutions for Scala builds using CBT, including task-scoping, dynamic configuration, and multi-project builds. Learn about CBT's role in bootstrapping Dotty with Scala Center.
Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems - A Case Study in Apache Spark
Explore fault tolerance in distributed systems through Apache Spark, examining design principles, challenges, and lessons for building robust systems and understanding their limitations.
Effective Scala Development in IntelliJ IDEA
Discover advanced Scala development techniques in IntelliJ IDEA, including coding assistance features, productivity tools, and a preview of future metaprogramming support using scala.meta API.
Herding Types with Scala Macros
Explore compile-time reflection in Scala macros for enhancing type safety in database interactions, focusing on implementation benefits and practical applications in production systems.
Flare - Scale Up Spark with Native Compilation and Set Your Data on Fire
Discover how Flare, a new Spark back-end, achieves significant speedups through native code compilation, NUMA-aware scheduling, and optimized data layouts for server-class hardware.
Extending Spark Machine Learning - Beyond Linear Regression
Explore Spark's ML pipelines, learn to integrate custom tools, and understand how to build and customize advanced machine learning models for big data applications.