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June 15th, 2017, ISSUE 174

READING

Data Structures Are Antithetical to Functional Programming

I recommend you stick to data structures when you must, and judiciously incorporate data polymorphism where it makes sense to do so, which will be cases where the opportunities for reuse vastly outweigh the overhead.
John A De Goes (@jdegoes)
Integrating Akka Streams and Akka Actors: Part II

This article will focus on how Akka Actors compliment the Akka Streams API with regard life-cycle management and fault tolerance.
Colin Breck (@breckcs)
ScalaFiddle comes to Medium

To embed a fiddle on platforms using Embedly (like Medium), simply add a link to your fiddle and the service will take care of the rest.
Otto Chrons (@ochrons)
Towards a faster Scala compiler

Read the benchmarks of hot/cold compilation time in Scala and learn how to leverage Zinc.
Jason Zaugg (@retronym)
Akka monitoring with Kamon part 3

In this part, I will try to monitor the very low-level components of the application: actors and dispatchers.
Andrzej Ludwikowski (@aludwikowski)

EVENTS

C4P Lambda World, October 26th, 27th 2017, Cádiz, Spain

Submit your talk if you'd like to speak about Scala in the most ancient city still standing in Western Europe! First round of C4P ends June 30th, second round lasts until August 31st.
Lambda World (@lambda_world)
Full Stack Fest 2017, September 4-8 2007, Barcelona, Spain

Use a special discount link for Scala Times readers and get a discount!
Full Stack Fest (@fullstackfest)

RELEASES

sbt-bintray, sbt-buildinfo, sbt-contraband, and sbt-pgp for sbt 1.0.0-M6

Back published artifacts for the latest sbt milestone.
Eugene Yokota (@eed3si9n)
New-style macro APIs and a prototype implementation for Scala 2.11.11

New-style macros are based on a platform-independent metaprogramming API that was designed to be easy to use and easy to support in multiple implementations of the language.
scala-meta contributors
scalajs-react 1.0.1

Uses new ScalaJS 0.6.17 anotations, adds Option[Callback].getOrEmpty, when/unless to object TagMod, Reusability#reusable(A) and some deprecations.
scalajs-react contributors
squbs 0.9.0

Full move to Akka http / Akka streams. First E2E back-pressure resilience.
squbs contributors
Longevity Release 0.23

Learn how to use typeclasses to improve type safety of persistent API.
John Sullivan (@JohnnyLongevity)

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