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June 19th, 2014, ISSUE 19

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SCALA DAYS 2014

We gathered all the talks and Twitter links until now in one section. It's super hot!

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So you'll wish you were there.

REST Test - Exploring DSL in Scala 
by Iain Hull from Workday.

Sparkle 
A data visualisation tool with Scala backend (GitHuB repo).

Macroid - Scala for Android
Not exactly the talk, but an exhaustive guide. Lots of knowledge.

Scala.js - what has it become and how is it used?
The story and the use of Scala.js.

Testing Stateful Systems with ScalaCheck
Rickard Nillson about ScalaCheck, the property-based testing for Scala.

Manage Large Amounts of Data with Iteratee
This talk is about Play! Iteratee and how to use it on real project: what is an iteratee? Why it's useful? How to use it? How to manage it? Is it clean? Is your code readable or not? 

Akka-HTTP: (un)REST your actors
Why does Akka need an HTTP module? Isn't this "feature creep"? Too high-level? Where is the connection to its "actor heart"?

Compositional Application Architecture With Reasonably Priced Monads
By Rúnar Bjarnason.

Scala Taking Over Big Data World
Told you! By Typesafe's Dean Wampler.

Extra: Scala Days 2014 Summary
Wonder how it went? Check out the first (we think) summary by Adam. 

P.S. Kevin Wright is collecting the talks at Github - stay tuned!
THE INTERNET

READING

New York Times uses Scala to Scale

Reactive programming darlings? Have I seen a unicorn tail there? Better check it out!
TECH REPUBLIC

Apache Spark and Typesafe's Reactive Platform

Typesafe Activator Spark templates are now Certified on Spark, here's the explanation why is that and what you can achieve with it.
DATABRICKS
SoundCloud's Microservices in Scala and Finagle

Yet another Ruby-to-Scala journey, but wait... microservices in Scala? Wasn't Scala, like, for bigguns?
SOUNDCLOUD

CODE

Trending Scala Repositories Today

Chic Scala repos for the Kool Kids.
GITHUB
Scalatra 2.3.0

New Scalatra version to make your apps even more blazing and classy. 
IMPLICITYLY
CKite 0.1.6

Pablo sent us this link over - CKite is a JVM implementation of the Raft distributed consensus algorithm written in Scala. Hot or not? Available at Maven Central as well.
GITHUB
Enumerations in Swift

Quite similar to Scala case classes and Haskell ADTs. 
PUMPMYBICEP
Scala.js 0.5.0

Scala and JavaScript? Nothing new. Anyone tried matching Scala with AngularJS somehow, though?
SCALA-JS

VARIA

Scala Movie bootleg

You've got to delete it within the next 24 hours or we're coming for you.
YOUTUBE





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