This week in #Scala (December 3, 2018)

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 last time, so lets catch-up on the latest Scala & Reactive happenings…

New Content

• SIP meeting minutes — November 1–3 2018
• Further enhance `new` syntax to reduce boilerplate
• A better way to manage Node.js on AWS Lambda
• How to use and serialize NonEmptyList in a model class
• Check out how we do things here in a talk Disney & TrueCar Deliver Web Applications for Scale & Availability
• Correlation IDs in Scala using Monix
• Counting type inhabitants
• OOP vs. FP. The pursuit of extensibility part #1
• Check out Basil — An overly forgiving Json data extractor that doesn’t have a Json AST
• Homegrown Scala Collections — Part 16 — Stacks & related JVM flags
• Come and meet the Scala communities at Scala eXchange London 2018

Updated Software

• Released sbt 1.2.7 + sbt 0.13.18 patch releases!
• New Http4s Tracer is available
• metrics-scala 4.0.3
• Announcing Dotty 0.11.0-RC1
• Scala 2.12 support in Apache Flink 1.7

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