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November 14th, 2019, ISSUE 300

READING

How an Optimizing Compiler Works

A walk through some of the core inference techniques within an optimizing compiler.
Li Haoyi (@li_haoyi)
TMWL October’19  - Scala Steward, DB index and a React hack

Some SoftwareMill-ers coding discoveries from the previous month.
SoftwareMill (@softwaremill)
Working with HTTP in Polynote

When you need to do an HTTP request, fetch some JSON in a polyglot notebook.
Adam Warski (@adamwarski)
How I learned to stop worrying and love FP in Scala

A first step to start writing functional code.
Ilya Kazovsky
A real life example of isomorphisms in Scala: POST request

Something to be adopted in your code to do real stuff.
Manuel Rodríguez
Custom Scala Project for StreamSets Transformer

How to create a custom Scala project and import the compiled jar into Transformer.
Dash Desai (@iamontheinet)
Top Link of October - How to structure your Scala application?

The hottest article last month was about putting a proper Scala app together - let's revisit!
Michał Matłoka (@mmatloka)

EVENTS

Motivating Scala, November 20th, Reston, VA (USA)

Tyler Horton, Principle Software Engineer, will present Motivating Scala. There will be opportunities for networking and asking questions before and after the presentation.
Scala DC - MD - NOVA
BeeScala with 30% discount, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 21st - 21rd

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BeeScala (@BeeScalaConf)
Tech Triveni, IIC Delhi, India, November 23rd - 24th

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Tech Triveni
ScalaConf.ru, Moscow, Russia, November 26th

Get ready for this exceptional event in Russia!
ScalaConf.ru
Lambda Days, February 13th -14th 2020, Kraków, Poland

Call for talks and very early bird tickets are both open! Full paper submission by November 15th, draft paper submission by January 13th (we strongly suggest the first deadline).
Lambda Days (@LambdaDays)
ScalaUA, April 3th-4th, 2020 Kyiv, Ukraine

CFP is on! Also: Super Early Bird tickets are available on website till 2019.12.31, and Wholesale 10+ tickets are available till 2020.04.02.
ScalaUA (@ScalaUA_Conf)
Scalar, March 19th-21st, 2020, Warsaw, Poland

Get ready for the biggest Scala conferences in Europe!
SoftwareMill (@scalarconf)

RELEASES

Monix 3.1.0

Fixed stack safety issue of Observable.combineLatestList for big lists and default scheduleOnce implementation; added mapAccumulate to Observable and other fixes.
Monix contributors
tapir 0.12.0

Changes: using sttp model (which is shared with sttp client); changed SchemaFor[T] into Schema[T] & some minors :)
SoftwareMill (@softwaremill)
akka-locality 1.1.0

Now with support for proxy regions, preemptive polling of shard allocation changes and cross-building for scala 2.12 and 2.13.
Manuel Bernhardt (@elmanu)

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