This week in #Scala (Nov 4, 2019)
Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!
Nov 4 · 2 min read
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
- A Guide to Scala 3
- Scala is the ultimate teaching language
- Why I like Scala
- From the Cradle to the Holy Graal — the JDK Story
- Scala application lifecycle, from pure Scala to FS2
- Doobie and/or Slick users: How are you writing Database-backed integration tests?
- Bird Operator in Scala — Pretty method chain
- Querying Presto with Doobie
- Cask Actors: a tiny, lightweight, typed Scala Actor library
- zio-http: ZIO-powered HTTP server and client
- rediz — a toy Redis client implementation using fs2 sockets, scodec, and ZIO. Inspired by Skunk
- ZIO, Http4s, Auth, Codecs and zio-test
- A simple integration test using Scala and ZIO
- Magnolia typeclass generation for Avro
- GitHub Action for Scala — cross-platform and for different JVMs
- Top 5 things that slow down your Scala build — Triplequote
- Please help us prepare for Sangria 2.0.0
- Scala Clippy — Crash Course
- PRE-SIP: Make classes `sealed` by default
- scalajs & zio: react fetcher hooks and effects
- One step closer: exploiting locality in Akka Cluster based systems
- Measuring performance of akka http server, huge cpu spikes on first access, graphs attached
- Property testing of Isomorphisms: way easier than it sounds!
- State Storage in Spark Structured Streaming
- Did Netflix just kill Databricks with releasing Polynote for free?
- Firsthand Experience with Polynote — A Better Notebook for Data Engineers
Releases
- mdoc v2.0.0 is out with support for all possible markdown flavors, including HTML files for writing Reveal.js slides
- Released Akka 2.6.0-RC2
- Ciris v1.0.0 has been released
- os-lib 0.42 is out
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