Keynote: What Scala and Fortress can learn from eachother

Featuring Guy Steele

Guy Steele gives the opening Keynote at Scala Days on what Scala and Fortress can learn from eachother.

This talk is also broadcast to the Tetris room.

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Research Hospital Data ETL with DataExpres

Featuring Aaron Masino and Michael Italia

Aaron Masino, Michael Italia and Lernar Davidson explain how they have developed a Scala domain specific language called DataExpress that supports ETL operations between a variety of data store types including multiple database implementations, Excel files, and value delimited text files. ETL...

Interactivity - Anti XML in Anger

Featuring Ben Parker

Anti XML in Anger - Ben Parker gives a talk at Scala Days 2012

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Pragmatic testing Nirvana with ScalaTest, ScalaMock and SubCut

Featuring Bill Venners and Dick Wall

Dick Wall gives a talk at Scala Days 2012, on how to achieve a Pragmatic Testing Nirvana with ScalaTest, ScalaMock and SubCut

Concurrency - Akka 2: Distributed by Design

Featuring Jonas Bonér

Jonas Boner gives a talk on Concurrency and Akka 2: Distributed by Design at Scala Days 2012.

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JavaFX and Scala - Like Milk and Cookies

Featuring Stephen Chin and Luc Duponcheel

This presentation will focus on the ScalaFX project, which is a DSL for writing declarative UI code in the Scala language. Usage of advanced language features, such as DelayedInit and @specialized will be discussed.

SubScript: Extending Scala with the Algebra of Communicating Processes

Featuring André Van Delft

Most programming languages offer relatively little or no support for parallelism and non-determinism. Support would in particular be very useful for specifying event handling and background processing in applications with graphical user interfaces, and for specifying grammars of input data.

Concurrent Programming with Futures, Offers and Brokers

Featuring Marius A. Eriksen

Twitter's services are highly concurrent: it is common for our systems to coordinate 10s-100s of thousands of simultaneous operations. Marcus discusses three primitives that have emerged as powerful tools when applied to this domain

Generating code within a compiler plugin - how ScalaMock does it

Featuring Paul Butcher

In this talk for Scala Days, Paul Butcher discusses how generating source code which is then compiled in a separate compiler invocation works in ScalaMock, and the tradeoffs associated with it.

Habanero-Scala: Async-Finish Programming in Scala

Featuring Shams Imam

In this talk for Scala Days, Shams Imam and Vivek Sarkar present Habanero-Scala (HS) which implements a generic task parallel programming model that can be used to parallelize both regular and irregular applications.

The Future I was Promised

Featuring Viktor Klang

In this talk for Scala Days, Viktor Klang will show how Futures can be used in for-comprehensions, how to gracefully handle failure, how to avoid blocking operations and get a glimpse into the implementation.

Kota Mizushima talks about differences and similarities between Scala and Ruby. On the surface, it seems that Scala , which is a powerful statically-typed language, differ considerably from Ruby, which is a famous dynamically-typed language.

Pettswood - Executable Documentation for Scala Acceptance Testing

Featuring Chris Agmen-Smith

Come along to hear more about executable documentation, and why it is easier to support it with Scala. More importantly, come along and tell Chris what you want to see next.

Building Interactive Command-Line Applications with Tab Completion Parser Combinators

Featuring Mark Harrah

In this talk for Scala Days, Mark Harrah presents sbt's tab completion parser combinators and command engine and how you can use them with the sbt launcher to create a standalone interactive command line application.

Parallel Concurrent Hash Tries

Featuring Alex Prokopec

In this talk, Aleksander describes the parallel concurrent trie data structured which became the part of the Scala collections framework in version 2.10

The Open Bank Project

Featuring Simon Redfern

In this talk for Scala Days, Simon Redfern discusses The Open Bank Project and its aim to provide an open source powered API for banks to use so that application developers can easily write 3rd party apps to access bank accounts.

Testing Actors and FSMs in Akka

Featuring Roland Kuhn

This talk introduces the Akka TestKit, which supports a wide range of testing approaches from white-box to black-box, detailing strengths and weaknesses of the different levels at which tests can be conducted. The second part focuses on how the Finite State Machine module can be used to separate...

Cloud Foundry Scala Demo

Featuring Ramnivas Laddad

Ramnivas Laddad leads a Scala Demo from Cloud Foundry for Scala Days

Towards Haskell in the Cloud

Featuring Simon Peyton Jones

Simon Peyton-Jones gives a keynote talk for Scala Days on Towards Haskell in the Cloud

Stackless Scala With Free Monads

Featuring Runar Bjarnason

In this talk, Rúnar Bjarnason gives an introduction to trampolines in Scala and expands on this solution to gain elimination of any method call whatsoever, even calls that are not in tail position at all.

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Scala Workloads in the Cloud: Part 1 Web Applications

Featuring Jennifer Hickey and Ramnivas Laddad

In this session, Jennifer Hickey and Ramnivas Laddad explore opportunities to leverage the Scala and cloud combination. We will take examples from a few prominent Scala frameworks and deploy them to cloudfoundry.com, an open source platform as a service (PaaS). give for Scala Days part 1 of their...

High-level High-Performance Programming with Scala-Virtualized, LMS and Delite

Featuring Tiark Romf

Tiark Rompf gives a talk for Scala Days on High-level High-Performance Programming with Scala-Virtualized, LMS and Delite.

Async & Non-Blocking Scala for Fun And Profit

Featuring Brendan McAdams

In this talk for Scala Days, Brendan McAdams introduces Async/Non-Blocking IO and demonstrate both Netty & Raw NIO – and discuss strengths and weaknesses of each

Generic Numeric Programming Through Specialized Type Classes

Featuring Erik Osheim

In this workshop for Scala Days, Erik Osheim describes an ongoing effort to build a system of type classes that support fast, accurate, flexible and generic numeric programming in Scala.

IntelliJ IDEA Scala Plugin: strengths and weaknesses

Featuring Alexander Podkhalyuzin

Alexander Podkhalyuzin talks to Scala Days about the reasons why it can be good idea to try out IntelliJ IDEA Scala Plugin.

How to map and fold over an HList in shapeless

Featuring Miles Sabin

In this talk for Scala Days, Miles sabin shows why HLists are so much harder to support, and explain the type class and dependent type based implementation techniques used in the map and fold implementations in shapeless.

Migrating akka-camel module to Akka 2.x

Featuring Piotr Gabryanczyk

Peter Gabryanczyk has been working on migration of Akka-Camel module to Akka 2.x, and will share his experiences and show how Apache Camel library plays nicely with the newest version of akka 2.x

BlueEyes for High-Performance REST Services

Featuring Noel Welsh

In this talk for Scala Days, Noel Welsh describes BlueEye's architecture, and illustrate how it achieves its goals of simplicity and performance. I will show how Scala's features like implicits and generics work together to allow concise syntax for specifying services while providing...

Lightweight Polytypic Staging: a new approach to Nested Data Parallelism in Scala

Featuring Alexander Slesarenko

Alexander Slesarenko describes polytypic staging – an approach to staging of a domain-specific language (DSL) that is designed and implemented by means of polytypic (datatype generic) programming techniques.

Scala IDE 2.1 and beyond

Featuring Iulian Dragos

In this talk for Scala Days, Iulian Draogs presents the latest developments on the Scala IDE for Eclipse, and outlines the future direction of the tool.

Coding with style: The Scalastyle style checker

Featuring Matthew Farwell

In this talk, we discuss why we're creating Scalastyle, what it currently does (the rules that are checked), and how it does it (using the wonderful Scalariform), along with the current state of third part integration (Eclipse, Maven).

CnC-Scala: a Declarative Approach to Multicore Parallelism

Featuring Shams Imam

In this talk, Shams introduces CnC-Scala (CS), a pure Scala implementation of Intel's Concurrent Collections programming model.

spray: REST on Akka

Featuring Mathias Doenitz

This talk for the ScalaDays Akka track will show how spray makes it easy to supply Scala applications with a high-performance, fully asynchronous REST/HTTP API, especially (but not necessarily) if the application is built on Akka.

Asymmetric Lenses in Scala

Featuring Runar Bjarnason

In this workshop for Scala Days, Rúnar Bjarnason explores a small set of interesting user libraries that arise as a consequence of integrating asymmetric lenses into Scala, chosen for the purpose of demonstrating utility.

KEYNOTE: Where Scala is Going

Featuring Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky -- creator of Scala -- gives a keynote talk for day 2 of Scala Days on "Where is Scala Going?"

Introduction to Scala-IO

Featuring Jesse Eichar

Jesse Eichar gives an introduction to the core principals and functionality of the Scala-IO library.

Inside the Sausage Factory: Scalac Internals

Featuring Paul Phillips

This talk for Scala Days is for people interested in compiler internals. Paul goes over the major data structures (Types, Trees, Symbols) and how they relate to one another

Enterprise Integration Patterns in the cloud using Scala and Spring Integration

Featuring Oleg Zhurakousky

In this talk for Scala Days, Oleg will demonstrate how easy it is to build EIP-based applications using Spring Integration Scala DSL and deploy them to Cloud Foundry.

How we are using Scala, Redis and Twitter Storm to build a new sports betting platform

Featuring Catherine Jung

In this talk for Scala Days, Catherine talks about the building of a new sports betting platform -- including the choices we’ve made, why it is so different from existing solutions, and where what we’ve done can be applied to other problems

Binary Resilience

Featuring Josh Suereth

In this talk for Scala Days, Josh Suereth focuses on binary compatibility on the JVM and what it means to be binary compatible.

Making games and solving puzzles in Scala

Featuring Shadaj Laddad

In this talk for Scala Days, Shadaj Laddad shares a few graphical games using Scala and Processing as well as programming puzzles, especially Euler’s Problems using Scala.

Overview of Lift -- what's new in 2.4 and the road ahead

Featuring Indrajit Raychaudhuri

In this session, Indrajit discusses what's new in recently released Lift 2.4, the most matured release so far

High Performance Embedded DSLs with Delite

Featuring Arvind Sujeeth

In this talk for Scala Days, Arvind Sujeeth describes what it takes to build a Delite DSL and describes several real DSLs already being developed with Delite

Hacking with Play 2.0 for fun and for profit

Featuring Peter Hausel

In this talk for Scala Days, Peter Hausel introduces how to extend the framework by integrating a NoSQL DB seamlessly as a plugin. I will also talk about Play's implementation ideas as well as advanced topics like akka integration and using play as a micro HTTP library.

Spark in Action

Featuring Matei Zaharia

In this talk, Matei Zaharia covers the basics of Spark, sketch some of these applications, and discuss new features we are developing, including SQL on Spark (Shark) and capabilities for stream processing

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Project Kepler: Compile-Time Metaprogramming for Scala

Featuring Eugene Burmako and Jan Christopher Vogt

In this talk for Scala Days, Eugene Burmako and Christopher Vogt introduce macros and quasiquotations, facilities enabling compile-time metaprogramming in Scala.

Building a MUD with Scala and Akka 2.0 Actors

Featuring Kevin Hoffman

In this experience report for Scala Days, Kevin Hoffman discusses his learning process and experience; that of a developer who has spent the last 11 years in the Microsoft world.

ScalaCollider = Scala + Sound Art

Featuring Hanns Holger Rutz

Scala Days 2012 is perfectly situated, as this year's SuperCollider symposium will take place at the same time in London, offering a showcase of the sonic art, including a sound installation written in ScalaCollider.

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Scala Workloads in the Cloud: Part 2 Distributed Applications

Featuring Jennifer Hickey and Ramnivas Laddad

After a brief introduction to Cloud Foundry basics, Jennifer Hickey and Ramnivas Laddad focus on deploying distributed applications using Scala on Cloud Foundry. This is the second of a two-part session

Remixing the Abstraction Compromise

Featuring Nathan Hamblen

In this experience report for Scala Days, Nathan Hamblen talks about Remixing the Abstraction Compromise.

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Scala Language Integrated Connection Kit - Milestone 1

Featuring Jan Christopher Vogt and Stefan Zeiger

This talk focuses on the features of the first public release of SLICK which is scheduled for the end of Q2 2012, plus an overview of the roadmap for the upcoming releases.

A brief talk from Scala Days sponsor, Typesafe

Effective Scala

Featuring Josh Suereth

Josh Suereth gives talk on how to use Scala effectively.

Skills Matter for Scala Days

Featuring Wendy Devolder

A brief talk from Scala Days sponsor, Skills Matter

A brief talk from Scala Days sponsor, Underscore

KEYNOTE: Re-inventing the Media and Television industry

Featuring Anthony Rose

Anthony Rose -- Co-Founder/CTO of Zeebox -- gives an afternoon keynote talk for Scala Days on Re-inventing the Media and Television industry with Social TV

Enterprise Integration Patterns in the cloud using Scala and Spring Integration

Featuring Oleg Zhurakousky

In this second part of his sessions on Enterprise Integration Patterns in the cloud using Scala and Spring Integration, Oleg demonstrates how easy it is to build EIP-based applications using Spring Integration Scala DSL and deploy them to Cloud Foundry.

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Scala in production at MindCandy, from the small to the large

Featuring Sean Parsons and Mark Baker

In this talk for Scala Days, Sean and Mark will show how MindCandy is using Scala to develop new highly scalable services for the popular kids website Moshi Monsters, as well as for the tools and infrastructure used to develop it.

What the optimizer does to your code

Featuring Miguel Garcia

In this talk for Scala Days, Miguel Garcia establishes a link between the internal workings of the optimizer and the resulting performance gains at runtime. For good measure, we also look at coding patterns the optimizer can’t bail out (at least not yet).

A Scalable Language for a Scalable Web

Featuring Timothy Perrett

In this talk for Scala Days, Timothy Perrett gives a comparison of three markedly different HTTP toolkits for Scala, and illustrates how Scala has had a distinct impact on modelling HTTP and dealing with the problems often associated with web development.

An Engineer's Guide to the Scala Community

Featuring Dick Wall

What does it mean to apply a sound engineering approach to dealing with the Scala community? Dick Wall's talk for Scala Days talk will discuss many points, including:

• What do I hope to get out of my contact with the Scala community?

• How do I best go about achieving those goals?

An Inside look at Heroku through the lens of Scala

Featuring Scott Clasen

Int his talk for Scala Days, Scott Clasen will cover all the core concepts behind Heroku, and will give scala developers an understanding of how to build and deploy scala apps there

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JavaScript as an Embedded DSL in Scala

Featuring Nada Amin and Grzegorz Kossakowski

Developing rich web applications requires mastering different environments on the client and server sides. While there is considerable choice on the server-side, the client-side is tied to JavaScript, which poses considerable software engineering challenges.

Fast Concatenation for Immutable Vectors

Featuring Tiark Romf

In this talk for Scala Days, Tiark Romf stands in for Phil Bagwell, giving a short overview of the Vector structure and explaining how it is planned to extend this structure to dramatically speed up concatenation and splits to enhance their utility further.

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Rogue Reloaded: Easier, Safer, Faster

Featuring Jason Liszka and Jorge Ortiz

In this talk for Scala Days, Jason Liszka and Jorge Ortiz take a look at the evolution of Rogue in the last year. We've totally rewritten Rogue, focusing on runtime performance and smaller memory footprint.

Scala Puzzlers

Featuring Andrew Phillips

Prepare to be surprised, entertained and...well, puzzled! Andrew Phillips presents a selection of seemingly simple examples which demonstrate that there's plenty of head-scratching left in Scala!

Scala in production: benefits and drawbacks

Featuring Anne Veiling

In this talk for Scala Days, Anne Veiling presents her professional experiences with choosing scala as a production platform, and its benefits in application development, recruiting, and agile processes.

Compiling Scala to JavaScript using Scala+GWT

Featuring Grzegorz Kossakowski

The talk will discuss general challenges encountered while trying to add a Scala support to GWT and explain how they were addressed. Compiling the Scala library turned out to be very tricky problem due to dependencies on Java’s I/O and concurrency primitives

Closing Remarks

Featuring Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky concludes the Scala Days 2012 conference.

Scala Days 2023

30.0 days - Online Conference

Scala Days will be returning to North America and Europe in 2023!

Three days in Amsterdam

Scala Days Amsterdam will be held this year at the Beurs Van Berlage on June 8th through 10th, 2015.

Three days in San Francisco

Scala Days 2015, the premier Scala Conference, will be held this year at Fort Mason in San Francisco on March 16th through 18th, 2015.

Scala Days NYC - June 10-12th

Three days in New York City

Scala Days 2013 is hosted by Typesafe and Skills Matter. Every year we strive to host an event that enables sophisticated and compelling technical research presentations, the opportunity to interact with thought leaders in the Scala community and have a blast doing so!