Concurrency with Cats Effect Learn how to deal with Fibers, timeouts, structured concurrency with Supervisor, and how to leverage operators like race, racePair, both, and delayBy. Krzysztof Atłasik (@_katlasik_)

Using Vulcan Codecs with Kafka Java APIs Vulcan is a functional Avro encoding library that uses the official Apache Avro library under the hood. The difference between this and the official Avro build plugins approach is that the types are defined in plain Scala. César Enrique

Scala Center Activity Report for 2023 Q1 A detailed summary of all the developments around the compiler, tools, documentation, and community. Scala Center (@scala_lang)

Are you sure your Scala 3 opaque types don’t instantiate? An update to an investigation of value classes in Scala 2, now looking into the runtime efficiency of their replacement, Scala 3 Opaque Type Aliases. Mikołaj Koziarkiewicz (@mikolak_net)

Underrated Scala Features and Hidden Gems in the Standard Library Learn about scala.util.Using, PartialFunctions, scala.util.chaining, Function types, Implicits & term inference, Local functions, Type aliases, as well as lazy vals & by name parameters. Anzori Ghurtchumelia

Making of a hybrid ScalaMatsuri Learn interesting facts about how this untypical edition of Scala Matsuri got organized. Eugene Yokota (@eed3si9n)

Integrating Akka with Cats-Effect 3 We are using a combination of Akka and Cats-Effect (ver. 3) for building payment processors. Integrating them isn’t without challenges. This post describes some solutions we’ve discovered. Alexandru Nedelcu (@alexelcu)

Dropped: Package Objects Package objects are no longer needed since all kinds of definitions can now be written at the top-level.

Faster Scala.js development with front-end tooling and new tutorials In this post, we introduce vite-plugin-scalajs, a new plugin that can reduce your Scala.js turnaround time from 10 seconds to under one. Sébastien Doeraene (@sjrdoeraene)

The Secret VS Code Hack for Indentation Guides! It was harder than necessary to set up indentation guides in VS Code exactly how I wanted, but I found a way and it's not the intentional one! This video is especially useful for Scala 3.3.x that is about to come out. DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

Scalar Conference 2023 talks All talks from the conference are now available! SoftwareMill (@scalarconf)

Understanding FP: Overcoming Intuition and Ease Hurdles Some people state that the FP way of doing things is easier, while others say it’s more complicated and isn’t even worth it. Let’s explore this. Yevhenii Zelenskyi (@impurepics)

Call For Proposals - ZIO WORLD 2023 Add your talk here. Ziverge (@zivergetech)

Scala Days, June 4th-7th (Seattle, USA), Sept 11th - 12th (Madrid, Spain) This year’s Scala Days marks the conference’s return since it was put on hold in 2020. This year we’re happy to host in Seattle, WA, in the US, and Madrid, Spain. Scala Days (@scaladays)

Scala Days, June 4th-7th (Seattle, USA), Sept 11th - 12th (Madrid, Spain) This year’s Scala Days marks the conference’s return since it was put on hold in 2020. This year we’re happy to host in Seattle, WA, in the US, and Madrid, Spain. Scala Days (@scaladays)

10% discount for the Scala 3 Metaprogramming (ALL-NEW) course for our readers! Use code SCALATIMES10off and enjoy the course! Ziverge (@zivergetech)

10% discount for LambdaConf, Sept 16th-19th, Boulder, Colorado LambdaConf returns in its first edition after the pandemic, reimagined as a multi-disciplinary developer conference featuring thought-provoking, entertaining, and mind-blowing talks and workshops that will forever change the way you write software. Ziverge (@zivergetech)

Call For Proposals - LambdaConf 2023 Send your talk and join LambdaConf! Ziverge (@zivergetech)

Call for Volunteers - Lambda Conf 2023 Become part of the team! Ziverge (@zivergetech)

10% discount for Functional Scala, Nov 30th - Dec 1st, London Use code ScalaTimesFS2023 and get our exclusive discount! Ziverge (@zivergetech)

zio-dynamodb 0.2.9 Simple, type-safe, and efficient access to DynamoDB. Avinder Bahra

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