2018 Scala compilation time survey We have created a survey to understand how much time is lost in 2018 by Scala developers because of compilation. Your answers will greatly help get a better understanding of the problem. Mirco Dotta

How to Dockerise a Scala and Akka HTTP Application Using Docker is a given nowadays, and in this tutorial we will how to learn to dockerise our Scala and Akka HTTP applications without even creating a Dockerfile ourselves.

Using Machine Learning to Predict the Weather in Basel Pt. 1 Data & Baselines Matthias Langer (@mlangc)

How We Found a Missing Scala Class Here’s a fun tale of debugging that starts off with a common alert nagging our on-call rotation, leads us to a very confusing NoClassDefFoundError, and ends up with us knowing a lot more about dynamic tracing in the JVM. Ivan Vergiliev (@IvanVergiliev)

Traversing Object Graph with Shapeless (and Why You Should Write the Same Code Twice) See how the power of Shapeless can be leveraged for serialization. Shani Elharrar (@shanielh)

New proposal for extension method Compared to #4114, this one is simpler and integrates out of the box with implicits. Martin Odersky (@Odersky)

New pretty id generator UUIDs are cool, but sometimes you need to generate a user-friendly identifier. Here's an example of how to do it in Scala. Łukasz Żuchowski

Code formatting: scalafmt and the git pre-commit hook Learn how to trigger automatic code formatting just before the commit. Alo Davì

The Business Case for Functional Programming Functional programming will limit your technical debt so you build better software faster than you imagined and will earn you the Tesla you always wanted. Here's why. Neil Chaudhuri

Scala Programming - A Skeptic's Journey While Scala has much to offer that I won’t cover (e.g., type classes and functional programming constructs for managing side-effects), I think it is useful to consider what are those things that are most accessible to developers coming from a Java/C++ ecosystem. Dean Povey

Homegrown Scala Collections - Part 5 - Linked Set In this video we are going to revamp our initial implementation of Sets, since it offered no way to link elements of a Set to each other and thus prevented us from implementing methods like isSubsetOf. DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

Lambda World Cádiz, Spain, October 25th - 26th, 2018 Use promo code STLW18 for Scala Times readers to get 10% discount! 47 degrees (@47deg)

Win a ticket to Lambda World, Cadiz! Enter the competition to win a free ticket. Signify Technology (@Signify_Tech)

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Win tickets and a return flight to Scale By The Bay, San Fracisco All you have to do is refer a Scala friend! Simply enter for the opportunity to be at Scale by the Bay by emailing us! Signify Technology (@Signify_Tech)

sbt-iterm2-integration Plugin that integrates with iTerm2 on MacOS. Johan Andren (@apnylle)

sbt-explicit-dependencies An sbt plugin to check that your libraryDependencies accurately reflects the libraries that your code depends on in order to compile. Chris Birchall (@cbirchall)

scalajs-react 1.3.0 With support for React 16.5, moar type-safety, other features. scalajs-react contributors

Scalameta v4.0.0 A library to read, analyze, transform and generate Scala programs. New website and a lot of updates! Scalameta contributors

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