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It's a sunny Sunday here in London and it's even better as we have our Sunday Reads ready for you, let's check them out! Sunday Reads Our first post is from Chris Birchall, Software Engineer. This post is called scala-typed-holes. Our second read is from Martin Odersky, creator of Scala. This post is called Allow significant indentation syntax. Our third read is from Adam Wa...

Amsterdam is a beautiful city with a relaxed and easy-going atmosphere where you can fully expect a positive work-life balance. Therefore, why wouldn’t you want to take up a new opportunity where you can welcome culture and creativity into your daily lifestyle. However, whether you’re currently looking to make the decision to relocate to The Netherlands or you already live t...

Are you not always fully aware of how to create a CQRS-based application? Itamar Ravid at Scalapeño gave us a look into implementing CQRS and ES in a purely functional manner and how it is nothing more than activating the data types and type classes already written! Traversals and Scans and CQRS, oh my! Command/Query responsibility separation and event sourcing are two great...

From simple Scala compilation issues to complex Akka performance puzzles, Lightbend has seen it all! One Engineer, in particular, knows a lot about the Scala Ecosystem. Software Journeyman, Justin Pihony at Scala Days took us on a journey around the various issues he comes across including Akka Cluster and SecurityException. Supporting the Scala Ecosystem: Stories from the L...

Do you know how to implement the Saga Pattern? Implementing it with akka -cluster, akka-cluster-sharding and akka-persistence allows you to write services that respond in effectively constant time! At Scala in the City, Lead Consultant Matt Roberts took us through the Akka journey and don't worry if you aren't an Akka expert, you will find all you need to know here. Implemen...

We love our Scala in the City meetups and are so proud to have had some amazing speakers! Scala in the City is a great opportunity to meet others in the community and learn about different projects and systems. Check out this interesting talk from Software Engineer Stefano Bonetti on Monitoring Akka Streams, this was from our sixth meetup at Schibsted. Monitoring Akka Stream...

Short for time? This fast-paced tour by Jon Pretty of how various features of the Scala type system can be used to construct type-level representations of a number of different data types in Scala will help inform you what you need to without the long day of learning! Lifting Data Structures to the Type-level In this talk, Jon will give a fast-paced tour of how various featu...

Can we abstract over context? It can actually be very important to be abstracting over context as it is the key element of programming techniques. Martin Odersky argues that implicit parameters found in Scala are a canonical way to express context and that implicit function types are the right way to abstract over it. How To Abstract Over Context Programming is fundamentally...

We were so excited to get the chance to catch up with Software Engineer Oskar Wickström. Find out a bit more about Oskar and his journey as a Software Engineer. ​ What's your background? Where did you grow up? I'm from the countryside in southern Sweden, about an hour's trip from Malmö. Growing up, I spent a lot of time outdoors, especially before me and my friends got hold ...

Hands On With Spark: Creating A Fast Data Pipeline With Structured Streaming And Spark Streaming Apache Spark is a really popular framework for data analytics. It combines various libraries but it can be difficult to know which part to use for which job so in this talk by Senior Software Engineer at Lightbend, Gerard Maas he focuses on choosing the right Fast Data stream pro...