A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on ...

Scala is essentially the C++ of high level (ergo, memory managed) languages on the JVM. It supports many paradigms equally, and due to this, it has sacrificed the "simplicity" of the language. Even ...

There are many touted benefits of the Scala programming language, especially for Java developers. Among others, Scala’s advertised strengths and advantages include the following: Able to run on ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Here we begin a series of articles to look at Scala. Scala is a programming language that rides ...

One more than one occasion, I’ve found myself yearning for a more functional paradigm that facilitates easier concurrency programming on the JVM. And while Erlang is an excellent platform for ...

Although proponents of Scala push for its usage in a vast array of situations, adopting a new programming language can just as easily be a path to failure as it can be a path to victory. In some cases ...

Scala is not among the most popular programming languages but soon this could change. With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to ...

Developers of the open source Scala programming language have been given a grant to work the language into a programming model designed to support parallel processing. The European Research Grant, ...