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 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.
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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 -
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!
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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,...
object-functional dsl implicits jvm types scalability 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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Crafty Communications (Scala and Pesky People) - Beginner
Featuring Asher Glynn
Effective development is all about communication - with other developers, with users, with managers(!). While this has always been true, the gap between the Scala true believers and the rest-of-the-world can sometimes feel cavernous.
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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.
dotty scala scalax performance testing hotspot -
Building multiplayer game using streams - Beginner
Featuring Michał Płachta
In this talk you will learn how stream-based programming can be used to implement web frontend and multiplayer backend of the classic game: Snake.
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How to write maintainable Scala code - Beginner
Featuring Peter Hilton
Scala’s biggest problem isn’t adoption any more, it’s unmaintainable code. The core of maintainable code is clean code with good tests, but that by itself is not enough. During this talk, you will learn a range of techniques for writing and improving code for maintainability, including how to get...
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Typelevel Scala Rebooted - Beginner
Featuring Miles Sabin
The Typelevel fork of the Scala compiler has been reinvogorated by the recent community fix for SI-2712, a long-standing problem of type inference for projects which make extensive use of higher-kinded types.
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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.
big-data bigdata visualisation scala scalax scalajs -
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Detecting antisocial comments: an adventure in machine learning at theguardian.com - Intermediate
Featuring Thomas Kaliakos and Nicolas Long
How do you detect antisocial behaviour in online communities? This is a very real problem for the Guardian as we have tens-of-thousands of comments a day. During this talk, you will learn how, as a small team of non-data-scientists, Nicolas and team used Apache Spark running on Amazon’s Elastic...
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Predictive analytics with Scala and Spark at ING - Intermediate
Featuring Bas Geerdink
ING is a Data Driven Experimental Enterprise, which is heavily investing in big data, analytics and streaming processing. As in many other enterprises, we deal with a large variety of data sources. Some are responsible for primary processes, while others are used to improve the quality of the...
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Smooth migrations to Dotty with scalafix - Intermediate
Featuring Ólafur Páll Geirsson
Scalafix is a new code rewriting tool to help you prepare for Dotty, a next generation Scala compiler. During this talk, you will discover how scalafix takes care of easy, repetitive and tedious code transformations so you can faster enjoy the benefits that Dotty brings. More broadly, you will...
scala scalax dotty developer-tools programming scalafix compiler
