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Patterns for Slick database applications
Featuring Jan Christopher Vogt
This talk suggests particular solutions to these problems. We will be looking at reducing boiler-plate, re-using code between queries, efficiently modelling object references and more.
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Network I/O for a More Civilized Age: The New Akka I/O
Featuring Brendan McAdams
This talk will explore the benefits and power of this new Akka I/O layer, including a brief exploration of its benefits over the "Old" Akka IO. The presenter will introduce the ByteString & it's powerful manipulation tools for network traffic, the Pipeline system for composed...
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Play, sbt and its compilers
Featuring Fredrik Ekholdt
Ever wondered how the Play framework's reload magic works? And what about those compilers for JavaScript and CoffeeScript? The answer is a sbt plugin. Join Typesafe's Fredrik in an inquisitive dive into Play from the sbt point of view and learn more about Play, sbt and how to support your...
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Overcoming U-turns and Dead Ends: Lessons of using Scala, Akka & Spray on Heroku
Featuring Stig Brautaset and Sam Dean
At the start of the year we set out to create The Netbook, a fashion-based social network, from scratch. These are some lessons we learnt building its REST API backend using Scala, Akka and Spray; and deploying on Heroku.
scala akka spray postgresql mongodb redis rest heroku scalax -
Scalding A.K.A: Writing Hadoop jobs, but without the pain
Featuring Konrad Malawski
In this talk though we'll focus on Scalding - a library, developed at Twitter, but used by many others - including eBay - to simplify and bring back the joy to Big Data by using a thin layer of Scala on top of Cascading to build-up data processing "as if it was a simple map {...
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Akka for the rest of us
Featuring Phil Wills
In this talk I aim to convince you that, even if you're not building a distributed system processing millions of transactions per second, Akka is a toolkit which can help build correct, elegant solutions. I'll demonstrate patterns from production apps at the Guardian to illustrate this.
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Clojure + REPL = fun
Featuring Neale Swinnerton
Neale will live code a complete data visualisation application in clojure using the REPL, demonstrating why working in clojure is fun, fast and exciting.
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Take Flight : Using Spaces in Scala
Featuring Nigel Warren and Asher Glynn
This talk will show how to use the power of Space based systems in Scala. With a simple REPL showing the foundations of the Space API, leading to an example application built using Fly Object Space and the Play Frame work as examples.
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Hidden Gems in ScalaTest 2.0
Featuring Bill Venners
In this talk, Bill Venners will guide you through ScalaTest 2.0 by pointing out lesser-known features of the testing toolkit that can help you get stuff done. You'll gain insight into what ScalaTest offers, why ScalaTest is designed the way it is, and how you can get more out of it.
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Scala and graphs
Featuring Mark Needham
In this talk I'll introduce this way of modelling data using Neo4j, the world's leading graph database. I'll show how to write queries using Neo4j's Cypher query language, and will discuss the Scala specific tools you can use to build your own graph based applications.
scala neo4j graph-databases cypher nosql scalax
