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May 1st, 2014, ISSUE 12

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Reactive Scala Wrapper for Amazon SQS

TL;DR: GitHub. Fortytwo's team decided to write their Scala wrapper for Amazon's Java Library because the default just wasn't reactive enough. Plus, they've released it under MIT licence - go and have a look! 
42GO

Confessions of a Scala evangelist turned Ruby pragmatist

Criticising Scala seems like young nation's revelations concerning its national heroes.
Yes, they were great; yes, they were important; yes, it's high time to say that they were wrong.
At least sometimes.
JIAWEI
Reasons behind renaissance of functional programming languages

- (...) it is no longer suicide to build your product using a functional language.
- I'm tempted to blame our education, but I'm not sure it's the only culprit.
Well, go and find for yourself. A Hacker News discussion.
HACKER NEWS
Scaling Down the Scala Compiler Dragon

This is an extraordinary look at what happens, in terms of call path traversal, when the Scala compiler does actually compile Scala code, in this case the Scala SDK.
VIMEO
Optimizing Static Asset Loading with Play

A solid coding post by Salesforce's James Ward. A good way to speed up your Play web apps!
JAMES WARD

CODE

Codebrag v.2 Beta available

Tired of code reviews? Try Codebrag! We aim to make reviews fun, functional and... actually happen. Codebrag is our Scala-based code review tool that just went into open beta.
GOOGLEGROUPS

Kamon bigger, better

Kamon is an open source set of metrics for reactive applications. They've recently added a StatsD module and a Docker image to help you start quicker. Plus, Kamon's Akka 2.3 compatible. We think those folks are doing marvelous job - sign up for updates at Kamon's twitter!
KAMON IO
Parallel Monte Carlo using Scala 

It's relieving to know that Scala programmers tackle real scientific computing problems. After all those alarming HN posts about engineers choosing bizarre startups over medicine, engineering or just science in general. 
DARRENJW
ScalaMeter

Automate your performance testing today! Squeeze the most of your Scala apps! Make your JVM sweat!
GITHUB IO
Scala.rx

Scala.Rx is an experimental change propagation library for Scala. Scala.Rx gives you Reactive variables (Rxs), which are smart variables who auto-update themselves when the values they depend on change. The underlying implementation is push-based FRP based on the ideas in Deprecating the Observer Pattern.
GITHUB

VARIA

Scala Days 2013: Fun programming in Scala

We were determined to find something entertaining AND about Scala. Sadly, #scala and #fun just don't mix. So why not Scala and Minecraft?
YOUTUBE





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