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July 25th, 2019, ISSUE 284

READING

Cross-compiling In Scala

Why is worth to update your Scala version?
Dor Sever (@dor_sever)
IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2019.2

The 2019.2 release brings Functional Code Highlighting, Fine-grained Type Diff, Case Clause Completion, Build Server Protocol, and More.
Pavel Fatin (@pavelfatin)
Introducing Scala Cypher DSL

A type-safe, compile-time DSL for Neo4J Cypher Query Language in Scala.
Manish Katoch
Tame your config

Finding the best approach for making code more readable.
Robert Walerowicz (@rwalerow)
A rate-limiter in 15 lines of code with cats-effect

Concurrency and parallelism. The semaphore.
Olivier Melois
Revisit Dependency Injection in Scala

What are the best DI containers in Scala?
Naoki Takezoe (@takezoen)
Scala: and using it in a Startup in 2019

6 reasons why to use Scala in your company.
Hengky Sucanda
LogStage: zero-cost structured logging in Scala. Part 1: Overview

The first part of a series about a new tool for logging.
Maksym Ratoshniuk (@mratoshniuk)
LogStage: zero-cost structured logging in Scala. Part 2: Practical example

The second part of a series about a new tool for logging.
Maksym Ratoshniuk (@mratoshniuk)

PRESENTATIONS

Homegrown Scala Collections - Part 39 - Stream.filter Evaluation Leak

In this video we will see how modeling Streams as delayed lists is insufficient for implementing procedures related to filtering.
DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

EVENTS

Scala in the City - Thursday 25th July @ Vrbo (HomeAway) #17

Meetup dedicated to everyone who loves all things Scala.
Scala in the City (@Scalainthecity)
Lambda World, Cádiz, Spain, October 17th - 18th

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Lambda World (@lambda_world)
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BeeScala (@BeeScalaConf)
Code Mesh, London, November 7th - 8th

Don't miss the very early bird tickets that will go on sale on July 21st!
CodeMesh (@CodeBEAMio)
CFP for ScalaConf.ru, Moscow, Russia, November 26th

Don't miss the CFP deadline which is September 26th!
ScalaConf.ru

RELEASES

safety_plugin

A sbt Plugin to enforce styling rules as well as making sure that you are using the right version of the dependencies.
Leo Benkel (@LeoBenkel)
scala-collection-contrib

community-contributed additions to the Scala 2.13 collections
Seth Tisue (@SethTisue)
sjq

Command-line JSON processor with Scala syntax
Yannick Gladow (@y_gldw)

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