Stream Posts Tagged as Scala
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Where can the Play Framework take you and what are its limitations? In this broadly scoped talk, Scala programmer Will Sargent provides some insights into the framework he's most passionate about.
Scala is simple. At least, according to Adriaan Moors, Typesafe's Scala Tech Lead. Hear why he thinks so, and about the details of Scala 2.10, in this debut talk at the renewal of SF Scala.
Let's build a web service for the common man. Michael Seid dissects the Play! framework as a way to do this.
Miles Sabin introduces 'shapeless' to implicit macros in this demo oriented presentation that shows exactly how they work so well together.
What is an approximate collection? Avi Bryant discusses data collection, Twitter's Algebird, and ways to gather a ton of information with only a bounded amount of memory.
Typesafe's Mark Harrah, creator of sbt, on limitations, improvements, and tips for dependency management in Scala.
Did you know that Foursquare's entire server is implemented in Scala? Watch this video to see how their engineering team deals with performance issues by using Twitter's build tool 'pants'.
Finagle, a network stack for the JVM , might just be the asynchronous programmer’s best kept secret. The CTO of LOYAL3 explains why.
In this presentation from the Northeast Scala Symposium, core committer and maintainer Lars Hupel gives a brief overview of the Scalaz 7 library, including new features which improve usability.
Blake Matheny, VP of Engineering at Tumblr, shows us code from their backend and the methods they've used for troubleshooting. He also includes what he calls the "7 distributed systems deadly sins."
Erik Osheim provides tips that focus on low-level optimization, writing bytecode in Scala, and improving performance.
Bill Venners hooks it up with 10 rules of thumb that will help simplify your users' life when they use your library.
Dr. Roland Kuhn, Akka tech lead at Typesafe, discusses how types, macros and runtime compilation have been applied to sort actor messages into type-safe channels.
Twitter data scientist Oscar Boykin explores the distinctions between functional programming and mathematics, and discusses several recent Twitter products: algebird, bijection, and scalding.
An advanced level talk on functional programing that address solutions to problems with stream and distributed processing.
Join John De Goes, Precog's CEO/CTO, as he reveals many of the nuances of building a data science platform (100% Scala!), and some of the lessons learned on working on such a project.
Get your scala on! Join Typesafe's Josh Suereth as he discusses common patterns for how to define asynchronous flow, including a few core abstractions like applicative functors, monads, & traversal.
Tom Switzer uses monoids, rings, fields, vector spaces, and commutativity to explain how concepts from abstract algebra can be applied in programming.
Daniel Spiewak's keynote presentation on the Cake Pattern, from the basics to the details, for the Northeast Scala Symposium '13.
Couldn't make it out to Philadelphia for the 2013 Northeast Scala Symposium? No problem! We have ALL the presentations right here for you, sort of like taking the red pill...
Kelsey Innis, of StackMob, gives a presentation on creating beautiful, strong code that's tough to mess with.
If you're a Java developer and you want to get into Scala you first have to address how to start "thinking in Scala".
Hans Dockter talks about how his experiences with other build systems drove him to create Gradle, and how he took it from an idea to a sustainable reality.
Stephen Chin and Andrew Phillips, of Oracle and JClouds, demonstrate the power of JavaFX and Scala with their elegant, powerful, cross-platform cloud use program. From JaxConf 2012.
