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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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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...

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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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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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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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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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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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Monitoring Reactive Microservices - Intermediate

Featuring Henrik Engström

Reactive applications are the next major evolution of the internet. They allow for applications to be responsive, scalable, and resilient by building on a fully event-driven foundation. However, at the same time, this way of architecting systems introduces some new issues. One of these issues is...

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