Lightbend
Lightbend
Lightbend provides an easy-to-use packaging of Scala, Akka, and developer tools via the open source Lightbend Stack, as well as commercial support and maintenance via the Lightbend Subscription. In conjunction with its partners, Lightbend also provides training and consulting services to accelerate the commercial adoption of Scala and Akka. Working together with leaders of the Scala and Akka open source communities, Lightbend seeks to give developers the modern tools they need to build the next generation of software applications for the era of multicore hardware and cloud computing workloads. Lightbend and Skills Matter have joined up forces to help aspiring and more experienced Scala developers with the skills they need through the provision of regular open enrollment classes: Lightbend's Fast Track to Scala Lightbend's Advanced Scala Lightbend's Fast Track to Play Lightbend's Fast Track to Akka All of the above courses can be provided as private training classes at your premises too and can be tailored to your specific requirements. Contact Skills Matter on info@skillsmatter.com or call us on +44 20 7183 9040
Courses
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Lightbend Scala Language - Expert
Led by Trond Bjerkestrand
Are you ready to upgrade your skills and become a Scala Expert Developer? Keen to unleash the full power of Scala by learning Scala's advanced features? Join this Scala Expert course and learn advanced functional programming with Scala, gain a detailed understanding of the type system,...
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Lightbend Apache Spark for Scala - Professional
Led by Andy Petrella
Flexible, fast and friendly, Spark is the biggest big data analytics distributed processing framework for scale. This Apache Spark course will help you to take advantage of the platform with its native Scala binding to write data-centric applications which perform fast. Learn how to implement...
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Lightbend Akka for Scala - Professional
Led by Trond Bjerkestrand
This two-day course introduces experienced application developers to the reactive Akka toolkit and runtime and the methodologies that enable the creation of real-world actor-based systems in Scala on a single JVM.
architecture scala akka reactive-programming scalability concurrency functional-programming JVM functional -
Lightbend Akka for Scala - Expert
Led by Trond Bjerkestrand
This is a two-day advanced course on building distributed reactive applications using Akka and Scala. If you're ready to learn about how to develop the pinnacle of scalable reactive applications this is for you!
architecture akka scala scalability fault-tolerance concurrency reactive-programming JVM functional -
Lightbend Scala Language - Professional
Led by Trond Bjerkestrand
Are you an experienced developer keen to learn functional programming in Scala? Join this intensive, hands-on Scala course to get you started! Upon completion of this Scala course, you will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of the Scala language, its tooling and development process...
scala-test failure-handling optional-values traits inheritance scala-types functional-scala object-oriented-scala pattern-matching scala-repl scala-syntax scala
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To the Pub
If you're dead on your feet and want to skip straight to the pub, from 6PM we'll be opening up the bar (see programme for location details).
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Method reification and type-safety in a CQRS world - Intermediate
Featuring Renato Cavalcanti
CQRS applications brings some new challenges for statically typed language lovers since a considerable amount of the modeling effort goes to the definition of Commands and Events as separated entities without direct connection with the main domain model classes.
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Doodle: Visualisation in Scala - Beginner
Featuring Noel Welsh
In this talk, Noel will share more on Doodle, a Scala library for data visualisation that renders in the browser, to files, and on the desktop.
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JsonPath: Type safe query DSL using optics - Advanced
Featuring Julien Truffaut
JSON is a very common serialisation format used to transfer or store data. Most JSON libraries offer an API to manipulate JSON documents but it often involves mutation and/or lack type safety. Argonaut and Circe - two major JSON scala libraries - recently got a new DSL which focus on clarity and...
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Using NLP to find named authors in mailing forums
Featuring Trym Møller
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) are hot topics in this season even though they have been around since the 1950'. NLP has come to attention because the amount of textual data available on-line is massive and users need software to handle it. There are multiple...
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Establishing Orbit with Shapeless - Beginner
Featuring Dave Gurnell
In this talk we'll discuss some compelling use cases of shapeless, a library for generic programming in Scala. Example will include: deriving type class instances, generating metadata based on types, and eliminating wildcards. We'll cover key pieces of theory along the way, including...
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Functional Stream-Processing Systems based on Kafka on Scalaz-Streams - Advanced
Featuring Jann Mueller
Sphonic provides a number of fraud prevention services, both transaction-based (credit card applications, identity verification) and case-based (anti money laundering, analytics). After a number of iterations we have arrived at a simple and well-functioning architecture, a "sweet spot"...
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What should every programmer know about hardware - Intermediate
Featuring Dmitry Petrashko
Finding and fixing performance bugs in real-world software is a tricky task. It involves exploration and experimentation. During this talk, you will discover several performance issues found while working on Dotty as well as tools used to diagnose those issues.
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Push Your State to the Edge
Featuring Rhys Sharrem
This talk will aim to bridge the gap for beginner functional programmers as to how to introduce functional programming into a code base. The idea is to insert a functional core, and push all state to the edges.
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Practical Eff monad for microservices - Advanced
Featuring Eric Torreborre
"These crazy FP concepts are very interesting but how do I apply them to my job at XYZ?" Indeed, it is one thing to learn what a "catamorphism" or a "natural transformation" is, and another one to use it in our daily programming. In this talk you will learn how to...
scala eff monad scalax microservices typelevel cats scalaz
