Scala Days Conferences Courses

Rust - Confident, Productive Systems Programming

Explore Rust's ownership concept for safe, efficient systems programming. Learn about memory management, concurrency, abstraction, and Rust's community-driven evolution.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

What to Leave Implicit

Martin Odersky explores implicits in Scala, discussing their benefits, potential issues, and future evolution. He covers design, implementation, and ergonomics, highlighting use cases and proposing improvements for this powerful language feature.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Akka JS - Drop Your Actors Outside the JVM Boundaries

Explore porting Akka to Scala.js, enabling unified concurrent programming across JVM and JavaScript environments. Learn about challenges, implementations, and future plans for this ambitious project.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Introducing the Scala Center

Heather Miller introduces the Scala Center, discussing its mission, educational initiatives, community development efforts, and future plans for advancing the Scala programming language ecosystem.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Monitoring Reactive Applications

Explore monitoring challenges and solutions for reactive applications, including tracing techniques and best practices for cloud-based architectures.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Scalan - A Reasonably Typed Meta Programming Framework in Scala

Explore Scalan's unique meta-programming approach for Scala, focusing on graph-based IR, functional optimizations, and type-safe program transformations. Learn to enhance domain-specific libraries with performance optimizations.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Roll Your Own Shapeless

Explore advanced Scala type system techniques to recreate Shapeless framework elements, focusing on HList, context-dependence, and Peano arithmetic without macros.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Build a Recommender System in Apache Spark and Integrate it Using Akka

Learn to build and integrate a recommender system using Apache Spark and Akka HTTP. Discover the basics of machine learning and how to implement it in your applications for personalized recommendations.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Machine Learning with Scala on Spark

Explore machine learning with Spark and Scala, comparing frameworks, discussing advantages, and addressing challenges in data science. Gain insights into Spark.ml's capabilities and potential for predictive modeling.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Principles of Elegance

Explore Scala's unique "elegance zone" where expressive APIs meet type safety. Learn to write clearer, more intuitive code with stronger static guarantees using real-world examples from Rapture libraries.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Connecting Reactive Applications with Fast Data Using Reactive Streams

Explore integrating Spark Streaming with reactive applications using Reactive Streams. Learn about Spark's streaming model, back pressure support, and see a demo of a fully integrated reactive system.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Scala.js - Beyond the Coast-to-Coast Approach

Explore Scala.js implementation strategies beyond full migration, focusing on cross-project benefits and integrating with existing JavaScript codebases for practical frontend development.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Lightbend Lagom - Microservices "Just Right"

Explore Lightbend Lagom, an opinionated framework for building reactive microservices. Learn its development environment, project structure, and key features through code examples and live demos.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Being Creative with Genetic Algorithms and Typeclasses

Explore genetic algorithms and typeclasses in Scala, demonstrating their power through hands-on examples, testing with ScalaCheck, and creative visual solutions.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

@inline and @specialized - What Do They Do? Should I Be Using Them?

Explore @inline and @specialized annotations in Scala, their performance impacts, and usage guidelines. Learn about other useful annotations like @elidable, @strictfp, @switch, and @varargs.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk