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March 5th, 2015, ISSUE 56

READING

Analyzing #TheDress with Akka Streams

How to do elegant data processing with Akka to solve first-world problems.
al333z
Quicklens: Modify deeply nested case class fields

Another clever macro for making your Scala code even more concise.
Adam Warski
Transitioning To Scala

Advice from a developer who helped rebuild Walmart.ca with Scala and Play.
Kevin Webber
Scala Exercises

The wisdom of Scala Koans brought to the web.
47 Degrees
jOOQ vs. Slick - Pros and Cons of each approach

Do we have to watch out for a functional-relational impendance mismatch?
jOOQ
6 months with Slick

Lessons learned, lessons shared.
Movio

PRESENTATIONS

Implementing the Reactive Manifesto with Akka

The traits of Reactive Manifesto implemented and demonstrated in 45 minutes.
Adam Warski

CODE

Akka Streams & HTTP 1.0-M4

Go with the flow!
Typesafe
Bond

A library for expressing validation constrains by using the type system.
Flavio W. Brasil
Reactive Kafka 0.3.0

Catching up with new Akka Streams and adding more control over where to read from a stream.
Krzysztof Ciesielski
Scalaster

Tune in and read this interesting take on purely functional algorithms and data structures.
Vladimir Kostyukov

EVENTS

Scala.world

21-22 September, Lake District, UK
THE INTERNET

VARIA

Courser: Principles of Reactive Programming

New edition of this acclaimed course by Martin Odersky, Erik Meijer and Roland Kuhn starts on April 13th.
Coursera
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