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April 17th, 2014, ISSUE 10

READING

Reactive Streams

This is big news - a bunch of people from Typesafe, Oracle, Netflix and the like got together and start working on handling streams of data. To prepare it an asynchronous stream processing standard, that is. You should probably read this. And about Akka Streams afterwards.
REACTIVE STREAMS
 

A few hints about Scala sequences

Kind of minimal Q&A about Scala sequences - should save you lot of frustration, though. By our own Krzysiek Ciesielski.
ABSTRACTIONEXTRACTION
What is Type Class and why should you care?

Type systems are great because they protect you from lots of errors at compile time. However, sometimes it feels like it gets in your way and can make your code feel less flexible when you are trying to extend certain types that you may or may not have defined.
SPIKING THE SOLUTION
Welcome to Scala 2.11

Scala 2.11 is coming! It'll be bigger, better and, hopefully, less prone to bashing by various Scala haters. At least we hope so. 
GITHUB IO 
The Dark Side of Scala

This talk made waves at the Scalar conference - are you brave enough to brave the cracks in your favourite language? Is writing in Scala a sort of Stockholm syndrome? Come to the dark side!
GITHUB IO

CODE

Mock Unit Testing using Mockito

A concise introduction to employing Mockito in Play Scala projects. Quite basic, yet we think Scala needs more basic approach nowadays. 
KNOLDUS
Scala with MongoDB

Another bit from Knoldus, a presentation about the basics of Mongo, JSON, Casbah and Salat. 
KNOLDUS
Writing MapReduce jobs with Scala

How many times you have submitted a job to a cluster only to learn 5 hours later that you can’t convert a String to Double? Read on about using the Scalding library with Hadoop and Scala to write a MapReduce job easily.
SEQUENCE IQ

EVENTS

Lambda Jam - 8-9.05.2014, Brisbane, Australia.

Someone from Australia here? There's quite a nice conference incoming in Brisbane. Not 100% Scala and family, but still most probably within your interest.

YOWCONFERENCE





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