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Monads are everywhere! However, choosing a particular monad may obscure business logic but there is a way to solve this and Adam Warski showed us how at ScalaIO. Free monad or tagless final? How not to commit to a monad too early Functional programming is on the rise; monads are everywhere. But how to choose the right wrapper for the values which we manipulate (i.e. monad)? ...

Do you look forward to the Sunday Reads as much as we do? It's our way of taking time to chill out before the week begins and catching up so check it out! Sunday Reads Our first read is from Pierre Ricadat, Software Architect. The post is called Wrapping impure code with ZIO. Our second read is from Hengky Sucanda, Head of Engineering. This post is called Scala: and using it...

How did Scala implicits evolve? At Typelevel Summit, Martin Odersky told us about the few mistakes made along the way however there were also many things that they got right. Interested to hear more? Have a watch! Some Mistakes We Made When Designing Implicits We will talk about the history how Scala's implicits evolved, and about some of the mistakes we could have avoided i...

Are you slightly confused by functions? What are functions in programming and how do they relate to functional programming? Have all your questions answered in this handy article by Marco Lopes! 'In this chapter we’re going to try to establish what functions are, how they’re defined differently in different domains and what do we mean by function in functional programming. W...

Do you know how useful dependency management can be? It can aid you with so much outside of your build tool. At Scala Days, Alexandre Archambault gave us the best pointers including how to make your applications more dynamic than ever! All the fancy things flexible dependency management can do We've all used dependency management from our build tools. Yet, it can also be use...

Akka Streams is one of the hottest kids on the block so you'll want to know all you can! Check out this talk from Software Consultant, Heiko Seeberger at Scala Swarm where you can cover the essentials and some advanced features to keep you ahead. Learn you Akka Streams for great Good! Stream processing has become ubiquitous and Akka Streams, an implementation of the Reactive...

At Signify, we know how fortunate we are to have roofs over our heads and food to eat however, unfortunately not everyone is this lucky and this is something the Trussell Trust are fighting to change. The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of food banks in order to provide emergency food to those locked in poverty as well as campaigning to end the need for food ban...

Scala-async helps us to simplify the use of futures so what if there was an extension that enabled us to write producers and consumers of asynchronous streams. At Scala Days, Philipp Haller introduced us to this extension so we can implement it into our programming! Asynchronous streams in direct style with and without macros Scala-async is a macro for simplifying the use of...

If you have been patiently waiting then don't worry as we have the second Scala in the City talk ready for you to watch! Jeff Martin, Staff Scala Engineer at Vrbo introduced us to Scala Steward and how it helps Vrbo to manage technical debt and maintain development velocity. Scala Steward In this talk, Jeff will give us an introduction to the Scala Steward and how exactly it...

Want to be productive in Haskell? Identifying and resolving error messages is an essential skill for helping you become productive! In this talk from LambdaConf by J Haigh you'll see some awesome code examples on how to fix GHC type errors. Let's have a watch... Seriously, The Haskell Type Checker is Your Friend An essential skill for becoming productive in Haskell is identi...