This week in #Scala (Apr 6, 2020)

Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!

This blog aims to keep you up to date with the latest news from the world of Scala and Reactive programming.

It has been a week since the previous #ThisWeekInScala so lets catch-up on the latest Scala & Reactive happenings…

New Content

• To Trait, or not to Trait?
• Notes about Play Framework and the ExecutionContext
• Tapir codecs get an update
• What’s the Point of Applicative?
• Useful Coursier commands for every dev
• user-land compiler warnings in Scala, part 2
• A list of Dotty compiler errors that could be more helpful, especially for newcomers to Scala
• Using ScalaCheck with MUnit
• GraphQLize Update (#1) — Pagination, Scalar Types, Scala & Kotlin Support
• Data Juggling — Part 11 — Getting Started with Squants
• Edge to Cloud: Building the Tesla Virtual Power Plant
• Monitoring and tracing for Akka applications under kubernetes (k8s)
• 3x performance improvement for Joins on Spark DataFrame
• Minio object storage scala client
• Scala Love online conference registration is open, it’s free! Apr 18th
• Effective Scala Workshop, April 21–22

Releases

• scala-js-chrome released for scalajs 1.0.0
• Izumi 0.10.3-M2 with documentation & updates for LogStage’s `strict`, typeclass-only mode and for LogStage’s ZIO environment support
• http4s security vulnerability patch
• Akka.js 2.2.6.3 is out

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