Reactive Streams in Scala: Akka Streams vs Monix - part 1 In this part we're going to refresh the general concepts of stream processing and define our example use case. Jacek Kunicki (@rucek)

Optics beyond Lenses with Monocle Learn about Lens, Prism, Iso, Optional, and polymorphic Lenses. Michał Sitko

Reactive streams What is a stream? Coding example with akka-streams. Christian H.

The evolution of scalable microservices How to avoid writing microlights? Using CQRS and events-first domain driven design. Jonas Bonér (@jboner)

Futures in Scala Protips (part 4): BlockContexts Discover BlockContext, which can perform actions in response to the signalling of a blocking execution, with the downside that the piece of blocking code needs to be surrounded in a blocking {}-block Viktor Klang (@viktorklang)

What if I told you, Scala compiler can understand SQL queries? There is a little bit of macros involved, but under the hood, it all boils down to "type-level programming". Tamer M AbdulRadi (@tabdulradi)

Compile time dimensional analysis with Libra Libra is a dimensional analysis library based on typelevel induction. It performs compile time dimensional analysis to any problem domain. It also uses spire for its numeric typeclasses. Zainab Ali

Streaming large data sets How to leverage Akka HTTP and Akka Streams to deal with HTTP chunking. Michał Bogacz

C4P Lambda World, October 26th, 27th 2017, Cádiz, Spain Submit your talk if you'd like to speak about Scala in the most ancient city still standing in Western Europe! First round of C4P ends June 30th, second round lasts until August 31st. Lambda World (@lambda_world)

Full Stack Fest 2017, September 4-8 2007, Barcelona, Spain Use a special discount link for Scala Times readers and get a discount! Full Stack Fest (@fullstackfest)

Akka 2.4.19 A maintenance release with important bugfixes. Akka Team

Akka 2.5.3 Another maintenance release with bugfixes and improvements. Akka Team

Akka HTTP 10.0.8 Https Proxy Support, Ability to express textual content types with missing character set, Server-Sent Events Support and more improvements. Akka Team

Scala Native 0.3.0 with brand new garbage collector, testing framework integration and more! Scala Native contributors

sbt 1.0 beta2 Java-friendly Zinc API, Ivy engine with parallel artifact download, static validation of build.sbt, improved documentation and more. sbt contributors

scalaprops-native-example Example project scalaprops with scala-native. Kenji Yoshida (@xuwei_k)

ScalaIDE 4.6.1 Play 2 support and more. ScalaIDE contributors (@ScalaIDE)

Sangria 1.2.2 Including a way to transform all scalar values from middleware, a way to add extensions from middleware, improved error messages, and fixed helper methods for operation lookup in ast.Document. Sangria contributors

Nelson Nelson is a fully automated deployment orchestration tool intended to work with a datacenter scheduling system. Nelson contributors

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