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Sunday Reads

Scala Sunday Reads: January 2018 Week 3

Sunday Reads

We bring you the third instalment for January 2018, of our suggested ‘Sunday Reads’. This week we share some news from a few friends, along with a few of our best-loved Scala learns.

 

We have picked a new book that you should check out, new Scala training in the community, a YouTube video from Martin Odersky, a handful of great blogs from the Scala community and a look at the hiring process with one of our clients Uswitch to help you secure your next role.

 

First of all, our friend Daniela Sfregola is writing a book on Scala called "Get Programming with Scala" with Manning Books. Now available as MEAP at https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-scala …

 

We would also like to announce that another friend Jon Pretty, has announced a new training course for Scala: Advanced Type Mechanics! This will be run at ScalaSphere in Kraków for a discounted rate and in September there will be something unique, the first Scala One Training Retreat in the Lake District! https://scala.one

Jon also Introduced non-English chatrooms for Scala users, which is another great example of how much Jon does for the Scala community, this can be found here- http://scala-lang.org/blog/2018/01/09/multilingual-chatrooms.html

 

Simplicitly: Foundations and Applications of Implicit FunctionTypes by Martin Odersky, The YouTube video can be found here.

 

Luka Jacobowitz on Optimizing Tagless Final – Saying farewell to Free

 

Awesome SBT plugins for everyone, by Michael Wizner a Scala Engineer at OVO Energy, one of our favourite clients in London.

 

Finally we take a look at the at Technical hiring process at uSwitch with Lukasz Kopec

 

If you’re craving more, check out last week’s recommended reading material here and our TOP 25 most popular Scala Sunday Reads from 2017.

 

If you have any feedback or any recommendations for our upcoming Sunday Reads, please email Ryan on ryan.adams@signifytechnology.com and feel free to promote your own work too. Thank you for supporting our Scala Sunday Reads.

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