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September 16th, 2021, ISSUE 396

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Monitoring Akka applications with Mesmer and OpenTelemetry

Mesmer is an Actor System Extension combined with a Java Agent, enabling powerful possibilities for observability.
Piotr Jósiak, Jakub Czuchnowski (@jczuchnowski)
Building Next Gen Applications on JVM with ZIO

ZIO helps you build modern applications that are scalable, asynchronous, parallel, concurrent, leak-free, efficient, streaming, testable, and resilient. You also gain compositionality.
John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)
Where the ZIO Roadmap is Headed Next

What are the upcoming improvements targeted for ZIO 2.0? And what are the two surprises not discussed at the inaugural ZIO World 2021?
John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)
Announcing Data Times

We're lunching a ScalaTimes sibling project: Data Times! Great team, drawing from the experience of curating ScalaTimes for the past years. Subscribe for news on Big Data, Machine Learning and Stream Processing!
SoftwareMill (@softwaremill)

VIDEOS

SBT Tutorial - Part 1

This video covers the arguably most complicated feature of SBT - the scope axes. This is part 1/2.
DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

EVENTS

3-weekly Scala 3 issue spree

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Anatolii Kmetiuk (@AKmetyuk)
Functional Design (SF - Bay Area Edition), Sep 27th - Oct 1st

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John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)
Functional Scala Fundamentals (SF - Bay Area Edition), Oct 17th - 22nd

In this course, developers will learn the foundations of functional Scala, including language features that are unique to functional Scala, core concepts in functional programming, and proven techniques for developing robust and powerful applications in functional Scala. Use our link to get a 20% discount for Scala Times readers!
John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)
ZIO Hackathon, Oct 29th - 31st (CET)

Join this free event! We will share and learn about ZIO and related projects; chat about functional programming, functional Scala, and much more; work on fun projects; and get to know one another.
Ziverge (@zivergetech)
ScalaCon, November 2nd - 5th

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In this course, developers will use ZIO and best-in-breed libraries to rapidly construct web applications that are scalable; easy to test, refactor, and maintain; and which never leak resources or deadlock. Use our link to get a 20% discount for Scala Times readers!
John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)
Functional Scala, Dec 2nd - 3rd

Functional Scala 2021 returns for another year of great talks, familiar and fresh spaces, and positive energy around the power of functional Scala for delivering compelling solutions to the toughest technology problems. Use promo code SCALATIMES10 for a discount for our readers!
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aqua

Programming language for distributed systems & p2p, based on Scala.
aqua contributors
Spark on Scala 2.13

The ticket is finally resolved!
spark contributors
Release Scala 2.12.15

This release improves compatibility with JDK 17 and 18, it also facilitates cross-building with Scala 3.
Scala contributors

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