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What's the connection between blockchains and functional programming? Are they a match made in heaven? At Lambda World, Functional Programming Evangelist, Manuel Chakravarty illustrated why they are so well-suited. Functional Smart Contracts Functional programming and blockchains are a match made in heaven! The immutable and reproducible nature of distributed ledgers is mirr...

Scale by the Bay 2019 is officially starting! We are so excited to be Platinum Sponsors again and to celebrate (and reminisce) we've found a throwback to last year. Senior Software Engineer, Michael Solomon showed us how, at Twitter, they take the next step with GraphQL, what is this next step? Let's find out... Transpiling GraphQL instead of writing customized server code G...

What is the difference between cats-effect and ZIO? It might not be apparent at first but there are many differences and it's handy for you to know what! Check out this article by SoftwareMill Co-Founder Adam Warski and you'll know exactly what you need to pay attention to. 'The 'IO' from cats-effect and 'ZIO' from zio might seem quite similar — but as is often the case, the...

Want to know how you can derive your HTTP client function from a single type? Software Engineer, Paul Heymann can help you! At ScalaIO France, Paul helped us shift gears and take our programming up a level to fully know how amazing type-level programming is. Let's derive HTTP clients from types What if I tell you that you can derive your HTTP client function from a single ty...

What can Lagom do for us? At Reactive Summit, Senior Software Engineer at Lightbend, Renato Cavalcanti shares with us how this Framework can help you achieve an array of applications! What can Lagom do for you? Much has been said about building Microservices and the advantages of it, but how can you build truly scalable and distributed Microservices systems? In this talk, Re...

How much do you know about the tool Church encoding? It allows us to combine the best parts of FP and OO and achieve performance that you may think you cannot reach in a pure FP system. Keen to learn more? Check out this talk by Noel Welsh at Scala Days, Copenhagen. Uniting Church and State: FP and OO Together In this talk we describe an underappreciated tool, Church encodin...

Need to build a reliable system? Scala is the language you need! At YOOX NET-A-PORTER, they adopted Scala for their management system and at Scala in the City, Principal Software Developer, Francesco Nolano took us through how they implemented Scala and the challenges it helped them solve. OMS Scala (R)evolution Building reliable system is hard and Scala turns out to be the ...

This week we've got an exciting bunch of reads ready for you! From Scala to Haskell, it's all here, so let's read. Sunday Reads Our first post is from Alex Barlow. This post is called Building sustainable microservices, our opinions and advice. Our second post is from John De Goes, Founder at Stealth Start-up. This is John's talk called 12 Steps To Better Scala (Part I). Our...

What has been your experience of getting started with Scala in IntelliJ IDEA? At JetBrains, they took the daring move to re-evaluate their own experience and lucky for us Senior Software Developer, Pavel Fatin at ScalaSphere, gives us the insight into their first steps with this project. Enabling the First Step They say “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single ste...

We all love a Martin Odersky talk, as the creator of Scala it's one of the highlights from a conference to hear about this projects! At Scale by the Bay attendees were lucky enough to get an insight into four new functional constructs in Scala 3, Martin presented each feature in detail, why it makes sense to add it and discusses use cases. You can now catch up on it here, ch...