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  1. Scala Times Issue #549

    Capabilities for Control. Scalar 2025 Call for Papers is open!. Unison Forall, Sept 20th, remote conference. Lambda World. Oct 2nd - 4th, Cadiz, Spain. Call for Speakers - Art of Scala, Oct 10th, Warsaw, Poland.


  2. Scala Times Issue #548

    Perfect Tab Completions. David's programming examples knowledge base. Writing an Android app with Scala.js. Unison Forall, Sept 20th, remote conference. Lambda World. Oct 2nd - 4th, Cadiz, Spain.


  3. Scala Times Issue #547

    Streaming Hash Computations. Launch Scala, faster than Native. Distributed locks in Kubernetes with Scala. The Future Software Engineer. Lambda World. Oct 2nd - 4th, Cadiz, Spain.


  4. Scala Times Issue #546

    Upcoming Changes to Givens in Scala 3.7. Unexpected Scala Functions: groupMap. Lambda World. Oct 2nd - 4th, Cadiz, Spain. Call for Speakers - Art of Scala, Oct 10th, Warsaw, Poland. Scala.IO, Nov 7th-8th, Paris.


  5. Scala Times Issue #545

    ZIO-like dependency injection using implicit resolution. The Mechanics of Mitigation. Publishing test traces to Grafana using otel4s and weaver. Announcing Decisions4s: When Ifs Are Not Enough. State of structural typing support in Scala 3.3.0.


  6. Scala Times Issue #544

    Direct-style Bootzooka: 2024 update | SoftwareMill. The Tri-Z Architecture: a Pattern for Layering ZIO Applications in Scala. The Error Management Manifesto. Migrating to Safety. Benchmarking database sharding in Akka | @lightbend.


  7. Scala Times Issue #543

    Lambda World. Oct 2nd - 4th, Cadiz, Spain. Metals v1.3.4 - Thallium | Metals.


  8. Scala Times Issue #542

    Effective Error Handling. Developer Ecosystem Survey 2024. Pseudorandom Acts of Kindness. Scala 3 Metaprogramming Learning Resources. Scala to WebAssembly: How and Why.


  9. Scala Times Issue #541

    Tapir documentation improvements. Checked exceptions: fixed!. Use cases for Scala. ScalaWAW #33 - beach party! Jul 25th. Lambda World. Oct 2nd - 4th, Cadiz, Spain.


  10. Scala Times Issue #540

    PureConfig with Scala 3 - Tutorial. Developer Experience in Open Source Software. "Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way!" PDF is free. ScalaBridge London @ SiriusXM!, Jul 18th. ScalaWAW #33 - beach party! Jul 25th.


  11. Scala Times Issue #539

    YAML as a valid Scala 3 code. ExecutionContext.parasitic and Friends. ScalaBridge London @ SiriusXM!, Jul 18th. Lambda World. Oct 2nd - 4th, Cadiz, Spain. Faster and less mysterious sbt builds with Develocity.


  12. Scala Times Issue #538

    Make Impossible States Unrepresentable: Network Edition!. Ten things I like about Scala 3. Compiling Bad Code. The ZIO 2 “mental model”. JetBrains course: Functional Programming in Scala.


  13. Scala Times Issue #537

    A Logic Circuit Simulator with Cats-Actors. Magda Stożek - My Scala Story. Lambda World. Oct 2nd - 4th, Cadiz, Spain. ScalaBridge London Jun 20th, 2024. Armored type safety with Iron.


  14. Scala Times Issue #536

    Scala 3 improvements in Metals (and hopefully, IntelliJ IDEA). Purify Your Tests III: Lean, Mean Testing Machine. 12 years of the com.lihaoyi Scala Platform. Scala Is Not Going Anywhere. OpenTelemetry With Scala Futures.


  15. Scala Times Issue #535

    GraphQL in Scala: Role-Based Access Control. WebSocket chat using structured concurrency, Ox & Tapir. Tapir tutorials, part 1. Scala 2.13 LTS planning. A Sighting of filterA in Typelevel Rite of Passage.


  16. Scala Times Issue #534

    Lagom is approaching end of life: possible migration paths. WebSockets in Scala, Part 2: Integrating Redis and PostgreSQL. Scala service combined with PostgreSQL, Flyway, Doobie, Ciris, IO(Cats Effects), Http4s…. Akka 24.05: More Security. More Performance. More Efficiency.. Forking and Interruption in ZIO.


  17. Scala Times Issue #533

    Apache Pekko becomes a Top-Level Project. Scala Meetup at Evolution. Purify Your Tests: 2 Parametric, 2 Declarative. Introducing TARP Stack – Tapir, React and PostgreSQL. IO effect tracking using Ox.


  18. Scala Times Issue #532

    Duchess at Scala.io. Purify Your Tests. Tuning ZIO for high performance. JetBrains Joins the Scala Center Advisory Board!. Introducing com-lihaoyi Issue Bounties.


  19. Scala Times Issue #531

    Que es un Higher-Kinded Type de Scala?. ScalaMatsuri, June 7th-9th, Tokyo, Japan. Custom-compile errors with a venegance. Data Engineering at Netflix using Apache Spark and Flink.


  20. Scala Times Issue #530

    Direct-style Effects Explained. How to build AI apps with Scala 3 & Besom. Spec-first and code-first, hand in hand. ScalaMatsuri, June 7th-9th, Tokyo, Japan. Direct Style Scala Stack - An Experiment.


  21. Scala Times Issue #529

    Jacek Kunicki - My Scala Story. Kalix tutorial: Building invoice application. Safe direct-style Scala: Ox 0.1.0 released. LambdaConf, May 4th-10th, Estes Park, Colorado. LambdaConf - The Grand Hackathon Finale, May 10th.


  22. Scala Times Issue #528

    Lean Scala: Reddit discussion. Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way!. Caliban on Tailcalls's GraphQL benchmarks. LambdaConf, May 4th-10th, Estes Park, Colorado. LambdaConf - The Grand Hackathon Finale, May 10th.


  23. Scala Times Issue #527

    How implicits are useful . ScalaWAW #32, Apr 18th, Warsaw. LambdaConf, May 4th-10th, Estes Park, Colorado. LambdaConf - The Grand Hackathon Finale, May 10th. ScalaMatsuri, June 7th-9th, Tokyo, Japan.


  24. Scala Times Issue #526

    Announcing the Scala Ambassadors initiative. Supporting high-performance response streaming in Shardcake. IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2024.1 Is Out!. LambdaConf, May 4th-10th, Estes Park, Colorado. ScalaMatsuri, June 7th-9th, Tokyo, Japan.


  25. Scala Times Issue #525

    Scams in the Scala Community update. Why we bet on Scala at SwissBorg. Capture Checking in Scala 3.4. Why Effects libs? . Benchmarking Tapir: Part 3 (Loom).


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