This week in #Scala (January 14, 2019)

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

• Scala Best Practices — Foreword
• Cats Ecosystem Community Survey 2018
• Type Erasure in Scala
• Where is the llama for FS2?
• typebus: A modern guide for building distributed systems with scala and akka
• The Fourth Type of Variance
• Error Handling in Akka Actor (with Future)
• Session Windows in Akka Streams
• An Introduction to ScalaTion Part 2 — HelloWorld of Data Science
• Writing a Spark Dataframe to an Elasticsearch Index
• Setting up a Spark machine learning project with Scala, sbt and MLlib
• Rison: URI friendly structured data representation
• Load Testing using Gatling.io 3.0 for Beginners
• Homegrown Scala Collections — Part 20 — Trampolines for CPS
• Homegrown Scala Collections — Part 21 — Trampolines for Everything
• Postgresql from Spark, how to query?
• Aecor — Purely functional event sourcing in Scala. Part 4b
• Unison new year’s update: conferences codebase editor progress, git-friendly file structure.
• The trade-offs of large-scale learning

Updated Software

• Lightbend released Orchestration 1.6.0, a suite of tools that helps you deploy Lagom applications to OpenShift and Kubernetes
• Finch 0.27 is out: now with fs2 support
• New scala_typeclassopedia is out

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