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March 7th, 2024, ISSUE 522

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The Functional Programming in Scala Course Is Out!

This new course assumes prior knowledge of Scala basics and focuses on the functional programming concepts that Scala can simplify rather than language syntax. To get going with the course, you’ll need to install the JetBrains Academy plugin and the IntelliJ Scala Plugin.
Maciej Gorywoda (@makingthematrix)
Shipping your code to cloud with Scala, Besom and Pulumi

Besom, the Scala SDK for Pulumi, has just had it's second release - the 0.2.x series - that focuses on improving the developer experience based on the feedback from early adopters. This release is also the first release marking our march towards the stability of the APIs crafted with awesome developer experience in mind.
Łukasz Biały (@lukasz_bialy)
Flavors of shared state in Cats Effect

A deep dive into the nuances of Ref and IOLocal.
Jakub Kozłowski (@kubukoz)
Pekko Akka Compatibility

We decided early on to remove as many references as possible to Akka (branding, package names, config names, etc.). We also changed the default ports (migration guide). One of the results of this is that you should be able to use Akka and Pekko libs in the same JVM.
PJ Fanning (@pj_fanning)
Benchmarking Tapir: Part 2

Second part of the series focuses on profiling to find hot frames, as well as testing WebSockets.
Krzysztof Ciesielski (@kpciesielski)
Akka to Pekko Migration for thatDot and Quine

Our migration required two main activities. The first was the modification of our own code that used Akka directly. The second was the replacement of all dependencies with the Pekko versions. The latter proved to be the more difficult one.
Christopher Meade

EVENTS

Scalar Workshops at Early Birds price are back for two days only

Supercharge your streams with cats-effect (workshop with Zainab Ali) or Learn full stack Scala 3 with ZIO and friends (workshop with Daniel Ciocîrlan). Use the provided link to access the workshop of choice at an Early Bird price! Hurry, only 3 tickets per workshop are up for grabs and just for two days.
Scalar Conference (@scalarconf)
Scalar, March 21st - 22nd, Warsaw, Poland

Join the greatest Scala conference in Central Europe!
Scalar Conference (@scalarconf)
LambdaConf, May 4th-10th, Estes Park, Colorado

Get ready!
LambdaConf (@lambda_conf)
ScalaMatsuri, June 7th-9th, Tokyo, Japan

The largest international Scala conference in Asia.
ScalaMatsuri (@ScalaMatsuri)

RELEASES

Scala 3.4.0 and 3.3.3 LTS released!


Scala contributors
Cats Effect 3.5.4

Featuring a brand new rewritten Dispatcher!
Cats Effect contributors
iron 2.5.0

This release adds support for several libraries and other minor features.
iron contributors
caliban 2.5.3

This release includes support for subscriptions over Server-Sent Events, as well as a few bug fixes and improvements.
caliban contributors
criteria4s

A simple domain-specific language (DSL) to define criteria and predicate expressions for any data stores by using Scala type class mechanisms in a type-safe way. It pretends to be agnostic to any data store and it is extensible to support any kind of data stores.
Rafael Fernández (@neskeip)
Tapir 1.9.11

Includes quite a bunch of performance improvements and dependency updates.
Tapir contributors (@scalarconf)

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