The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019 Scala has a strong position, read the full report. IBM

A monad is not a burrito Here’s what a monad really is: a parametric type with a flatMap and a unit method. Maxime Kjær (@maximekjaer)

Joins in Apache Spark - Part 3 Another part of the series with some interesting gotchas. Achilleus

Scala sbt Project Directory Structure a demonstration of creating a dummy Scala project from scratch. Yunlong Wang

Scala Snippets #1: Instantiable Implicits I hope this helps understanding implicits better and aids in using them elegantly, utilizing all the awesomeness it provides. Manish Katoch

Scala Snippets #2: Dependent Types in Scala - A practical example Let’s try to build our understanding of this paradigm using a trivial but a practical use case. Manish Katoch

Open-sourcing the first OpenRTB Scala framework Long story short: if you’re using Scala and dealing with Google Java OpenRTB structures, using Scala OpenRTB may well be your best choice. Romain Lebran

AWS Lambda  -  How to Automate Your Spark Jobs on AWS Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) An example of how to spin up an ephemeral EMR cluster and submit a spark job to run. Scott Mandrell

A practical introduction to Spark’s Column Frequently used simple, important and common column methods for effective dataframe/dataset manipulation. Achilleus

Rob Norris joins Scala Center’s Advisory Board as a new Community Representative Rob succeeds Lars Hupel in the Community Representative role. (Bill Venners continues as the other Community Representative.) Scala Center (@scala_lang)

Abstraction and Learning with Runar Bjarnason What is abstraction? Can we have a precise definition of abstraction that, once understood, makes writing software simpler? Runar has thought a lot about abstraction and how we can choose the proper level for the software we write. CoRecursive (@corecursive)

Implicits In this video we will learn about most of the nitty gritty details of implicits - one of the most powerful and therefore dangerous features in Scala. DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

ScalaUA, Kiev, Ukraine, March 29-30 Use promo code ScalaTMS%_ScAlAUA-2019-29-30 for 20% discount for our readers! ScalaUA (@ScalaUA_Conf)

Scalar, Warsaw, Poland April 5-6 Join the next edition of the largest Scala conference in central Europe! SoftwareMill (@softwaremill)

flatMap(Oslo), May 8-9 Use promo code SCALATIMES for a discount for our readers! flatMap(Oslo) (@flatmaposlo)

CFP for Lambda World, Cádiz, Spain, October 17th - 18th Deadline for submissions is June 1st. Lambda World (@lambda_world)

CFP & free ticket for BeeScala, 21-23 November, Ljubljana Answer the question: "What is the idea behind the BeeScala name?", send your reply to info@bee-scala.org by 31st of March. For some lucky person, there's one free ticket waiting! Bee Scala (@BeeScalaConf)

CFP for LX Scala & Reactive, Lisbon, Portugal, July 4th - 5th Don't miss the CFP deadline which is May 1st! LX Scala & Reactive (@LX_Scala)

Alpakka 1.0-RC1 1.0 is almost there, stay tuned! Alpakka contributors (@akkateam)

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