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Thanks for making it out to Scala in the City last night! We had another exciting meet-up and this time we got an inside look into the national brand ITV, we definitely loved seeing their offices and finding out more on what they are working on, we hope you did too. Our speakers gave fantastic talks so thank you to both Nathan Matthews and Jose Miguel Martínez for coming alo...

What has been your experience of using Slick for Scala? Senior Software Engineer at SoftwareMill, Maciek Opała kept slick’s schema generated code in a separate project but with this use of a plugin, Maciek has made beneficial changes. Let's find out more! 'In a legacy project I work on, for performance reasons — mainly IDE-related — we keep the slick’s schema generated code ...

Python is a popular programming language but what are the core elements essential to the sustainability of Python? At PyCon 2019, Director of Operations for the Python Software Foundation, Ewa Jodlowska discussed all of this and the new updates in Python governance. Destination Python Picture your favorite vacation destination. There's probably a community that is unique to ...

Have you had problems arise with your Scala programming? Jakub Kozłowski at Scala IO France, helped us by going through different mistakes and explaining how we can avoid them. You need to check out this helpful talk! 7 sins of a Scala beginner Scala is a powerful language, with lots of features that make day-to-day development more pleasant. Some would argue that there are ...

At Signify we love technology and getting involved in all things Scala but charity is close to our hearts. Unfortunately, throughout our lives, we all will be affected by something that deserves a charitable cause therefore as a team we try to support in any way we can. From running races dressed as Santa to surging underwater, we've done it all and we can't wait for more to...

Although Backend Developer, Natan Silnitsky might be a first-time speaker, with over 12 years of software engineering experience behind him, we can't wait to hear his Scala Days talk this year! And we are not alone as Scala Days caught up with Natan to ask him all about his highlights and challenges. 'With more than 12 years of software engineering behind him, Natan Silnitsk...

Although this talk from Martin Odersky at Scala Days may be a throwback, we think it's always interesting to look back and reflect. Things were heating up for Scala when Martin Odersky gave this talk so let's check out whether Scala is where Martin thought it would be! Scala Days Keynote: Scala's Road Ahead After a fairly quiet 2015, things are heating up this year. To name ...

We LOVE the CoRecurisve Podcast! Hosted by Adam Gordon Bell, it's the programming podcast with all the top guests from Runar Bjarnason to Miles Sabin. If you like to code or have an interest in programming then this podcast is for you, the variation within this show is incredible and you'll hear from all your favourite programmers talking about every language from Scala to R...

Dive into the internals of dynamic scaling and state migration in Kafka Streams! Gwen Shapira and Matthias Sax at Scale by the Bay gave an awesome live demo where you'll see how a Kafka Streams application can run in a Docker container on Kubernetes and more... Deploying Kafka Streams Applications with Docker and Kubernetes Deploying Kafka Streams Applications with Docker an...

We all know the amazing Bill Venners, who you will have regularly seen at Scala Days and we are glad that he will be there this year! Scala Days takes the chance to ask Bill all the questions we want to ask, why did he choose Scala? And what problems does it solve for him? 'Bill Venners needs no introduction. A regular speaker at Scala Days, Bill, together with Martin Odersk...