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Want to know the pros and cons of synchronous and asynchronous messaging? Check out this talk from Hugh McKee at Scalapeno 2018 where you'll find out all about the exciting prospects of a microservice system! Safe Passage: Messaging in Microservice Environments Building a microservice system is fun. Running a microservice system in production is, well, it can be fun, but it ...

New to programming in Scala? Find out exactly how powerful it is in this article by Knoldus Blogs. Discover what functions are including Total Functions and PartialFunctions, have fun coding! 'If you’re new to programming in Scala(like I am), you must have heard someone or the other talking about how awesome and powerful the case keyword, Partialfunction and pattern matching...

Do you want the ability to deliver software that is proven not to fail? Scala Developer, Pawel Szulc at Scala in the City gave us an amazing talk on how formal methods promise the dream that every programmer would love! Want to learn more? Check out his talk below. Formal verification applied (with TLA+) Formal methods (and formal verification) promise something that every p...

Explore Akka's new Typed Actor APIs! Senior Software Engineer, Konrad Malawski dove deeper into the world of Akka at Scala Days, New York 2018 giving us all the knowledge on the over-the-network Akka Streams and more. Networks and Types — the Future of Akka In this talk we'll explore Akka's new Typed Actor APIs as well as the over-the-network Akka Streams and how they are ab...

Want to know how to read a Kafka Stream? And make use of its powerful features? Learn from Big Data Engineer, David Virgil Naranjo in this article where he covers all of the above and added extras such as JSON content. 'We will show what Spark Structured Streaming offers compared to its predecessor Spark Streaming. We will cover how to read JSON content from a Kafka Stream a...

As a Software Developer, one of the biggest benefits is being part of such a supportive community however sometimes you do need that extra helping hand. Keeping yourself motivated is difficult for anyone and having great mentors in your life can make this a lot easier! Microverse Founder, Ariel Camus advises us that maybe, more is better when it comes to being mentored, chec...

Want to know one way which Scala can be applied to real-world projects? At Scale by the Bay 2018 Bill Venners, President of Artima, and Frank Sommers Founder and President of Autospaces, help make us more effective Scala programmers, giving us practical guidelines and their insights. Good luck with your Scala projects! Effective Scala Scala is a flexible language that enable...

When it comes to functional programming, what is a side effect? or an effect? To understand their intricacies we need to look at how to handle them so check out this talk by Developer, Alejandro Serrano Mena from LambdaConf 2018 and you'll have your questions answered! What is a (side) effect? In the functional programming community we often argue about the advantages of kee...

Clojure celebrated being 11 years and it has continually improved! What are the awesome tools that have been built on top of Clojure's solid foundations? At F(by) Conference, Software Developer, Renzo Borgatti showed just how much power can be achieved. Clojure: Unleash the power within Clojure just celebrated its 11th birthday and it went a long way from being yet another L...

How do you describe and interpret endpoints? Using tapir, a Scala library for creating typed API descriptions, SoftwareMill CTO, Adam Warski shows us the steps needed through methods & paths and how to try it yourself! 'There’s no shortage of great HTTP server libraries in Scala: akka-http, http4s, play, finch, just to name some of the more popular ones. However, a common pa...