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May 6th, 2022, ISSUE 428

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Building High-Performance Notification Engine Using Pure Functional Scala, ZIO HTTP, ZIO Kafka

Leveraging event-driven architecture and a ZIO application layer. This article will require a basic understanding of Kafka, ZIO, Scala, and building an effects system using the ZIO pure function scala library.
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