Academese to English: Scala's Type System, Dependent Types and What It Means...
Heather Miller discusses Scala's type system, type classes, and dependent types, turning all that esoteric academese into English.
View ArticleMay Your Data Ever Be Coherent
Daniel Spiewak discusses the problems and design considerations which arise when dealing with multiple data that must work together in the same function- which is to say almost every function ever.
View ArticleLearning Scalaz
So you've heard about Scalaz and now you want to learn it. Eugene Yokota explains some best practices for diving in and emphasizes the importance of getting your hands dirty.
View ArticleSummingbird: A Streaming Map-Reduce API for Storm, Hadoop, & More
Summingbird is a library to represent streaming map/reduce in a type-safe way. Oscar Boykin discusses Summingbird's history, its development, and how it is implemented at Twitter.
View ArticleMacros vs Types
Are you ready for an epic battle? Types and Macros enter the ring, who will come out victorious?
View ArticleAn Introduction to Scalaz-Stream
Paul Chiusano provides an overview of the library, shows its program model, and walks us through some examples of its use.
View ArticleFunctional Programming is Terrible
While Rúnar is usually an advocate for functional programming, here he plays devil’s advocate. (This is hyperbole and obviously has a happy ending!)
View ArticleBetter Living Through sbt
Luke Amdor visits NE Scala to help dispel the bad rap that often surrounds sbt. He covers best practices for any organization wishing to adopt sbt.
View ArticleUnderstanding the World Pixel by Pixel
GeoTrellis is a Scala library for fast, distributed processing and analysis of geographic raster data. It also makes pretty pictures! Find out more in this awesome talk from NE Scala.
View ArticleHaving Fun with Play! 2, Akka and Websocket
New York Times developers used Scala to make an alternative CMS for third party agencies. Find out how in this 15-minute talk from NE Scala!
View ArticleWhat You See & What You Get (NE Scala 2014)
What's the difference between what you see, while looking at Scala source code, and what the JVM sees while interpreting it’s compilation unit?
View ArticleVerruca Vulgaris Treatments for Scala
Brian McKenna discusses his tool WartRemover: a method of writing linting rules which can be executed as compiler plugins, command line tools, or even as macros.
View ArticleSbt 1.0 - The Interactive Build Tool
This is a quick introduction to sbt 1.0. Josh Suereth describes the new features coming with the 1.0 release and includes a demonstration of the client-server prototype.
View ArticleScala Macros
Macros are handy tools, but can also cause a lot of headaches. Adriaan Moors discusses common pitfalls, and how you can make them IDE friendly, in hopes of making macros a little less scary.
View ArticleH2O: An Open Source Prediction Engine
This is an introduction to H2O from Oxdata, an open source, big data in-memory prediction engine. Michal Malohlava and Cliff Click discuss the value of predictions, how they're done, and Scala's role.
View ArticleAn Introduction to Pattern Matching in Scala
Pattern matching is a killer feature in Scala. Those of you coming from a Java background might find this particularly interesting, because even with Java 8, there’s nothing like this in Java.
View ArticleAkka HTTP — The What, Why and How
A talk on Akka HTTP, which according to Mathias Doenitz, "takes reactive high-performance web interactions to the next level."
View ArticleA Sane Approach to (Micro)services
Service-oriented architecture looks good in theory, as boxes and lines on a whiteboard, but how does it work in practice?
View ArticleComparing Functional Error Handling in Scalaz and Scalactic
A comparison of the approaches to functional error handling taken by Scalaz and Scalactic.
View ArticleScala Needs YOU!
Dick Wall is on a mission to make positive changes to the Scala language. This talk outlines his ideas on how to make contributing easier, more fun, and a generally better experience
View ArticleDemystifying Type Inference
Understanding type inference can be tricky... even for experts in Scala. Jon Pretty does his best to clear up some of the confusion and questions.
View ArticleSpeed, Correctness, or Simplicity: Choose 3
Typically, when implementing numeric algorithms, common wisdom suggest that between speed, correctness, or simplicity, you can choose only 2. But, is it possible to have all 3?
View ArticleDependent Types: Through The Looking Glass
Owein Reese wants you to be more comfortable with dependent types / path-dependent types, to understand them in more detail, and to spark ideas that generally help us gain insights into our every day...
View ArticleF-Bounded Polymorphism: Recursive Type Signatures in Scala
Marconi Lanna explains how to define and use F-bounded types in Scala, enlisting the compiler to enforce advanced trait semantics, while greatly reducing and simplifying unit tests.
View ArticleMacros in Data Pipelines
In this talk for NE Scala, Neville presents how Scala Macros can be used to improve data pipeline code levering Parquet, Avro, Scalding and Spark.
View ArticleWe Won! How Scala Conquered the Big Data World
Today, according to Dean Wampler, Scala has successfully taken over the Big Data world. This is a talk about why.
View ArticleSelfish UIs: Fast UIs for Terminal Users
Josh Suereth’s talk for NE Scala is about “Selfish UIs,” a concept that begins with making software for yourself, in order to improve your ability to make software for other people.
View ArticleIntervals: Unifying Uncertainty, Ranges, and Loops
Erik Osheim talks about intervals, explains how algebraic type classes support arithmetic over a wide range of types, and demos how intervals can be used in the place of Ranges, Sets, and Loops.
View ArticleThe Interpreter Pattern Revisited
Rúnar Bjarnason calls the Interpreter Pattern "a classic object-oriented design pattern that has been overlooked by far too many for far too long. At NE Scala, he gives "this unsung hero the accolades...
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