Keynote: Typelevel - the benefits of collaboration

Featuring Miles Sabin

A lot has happened since Lars Hupel gave his "State of the Typelevel" keynote at last years Scala eXchange. It hasn't always been plain sailing, but the arrival of the Cats project on the scene earlier this year marked the beginning an exciting period of collaboration among the...

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Keynote: Without Resilience, Nothing Else Matters

Featuring Jonas Bonér

It doesn’t matter how beautiful, loosely coupled, scalable, highly concurrent, non-blocking, responsive and performant your application is––if it isn't running, then it's 100% useless. Without resilience, nothing else matters.

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Keynote: Scaling Intelligence: moving ideas forward

Featuring Jessica Kerr

Scala is a scalable language. It is scalable in the computer sense, of small programs building into large programs. Does it scale in our mind, as well? There are a lot of ideas expressed in Scala. How do we scale those ideas from conception into full use? For any given idea, one person can't...

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Keynote: Spark+Hadoop and how it relates to Scala

Featuring Sean Owen

Scala seems to be, suddenly, an important language within the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, with the arrival of Scala-based projects like Apache Kafka and Apache Spark -- which is in essence "distributed Scala". In fact, it's not a surprising marriage: Hadoop has been building on...

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The Atomic Sublimity of Ensime

Featuring Rory Graves

Ensime is actively evolving. Moving beyond Emacs, we have active support for other editors Atom and Sublime and Vim, giving them lots of IDE goodness. This talk is a whistlestop tour of the progress we are making sharing the Ensime love.

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Flexible data structures in Scala

Featuring Mikael Valot

Strucs is a lightweight library that allows you to manipulate, encode and decode flexible data structures while maintaining immutability and type safety. A Struct is analogous to a case class that can accept new fields dynamically. Using the strucs extensions, a single struc instance can be...

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The rise of Scala at ING

Featuring Bas Geerdink

ING is investing in big data, analytics and stream processing to improve data quality and business processes such as balance forecasting, fraud detection and customer relation management. Our ambition is to become a data-driven ‘experimental enterprise’. To realize this, the ING team is working...

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Freeslick – implementing free slick drivers for commercial databases

Featuring Sue Carter

Sue will talk about why free libraries and drivers matter, even for commercial databases in commercial organisations. And why it isn’t just about the cost. Being free matters. You will discover how to leverage the testing infrastructure that the slick project makes available. Sue will also talk...

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Scala and Statistical Machine Translation

Featuring Aurelien Waite

Statistical Machine Translation is the task of translating natural languages using statistical models. Aurelien is introducing Scala and Spark into his translation pipeline and finding it a good fit for many of the problems faced.

You will learn about the Scala based rule extractor, how Spark...

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Collecting Uncertain Data the Reactive Way

Featuring Jeff Smith

Before you can even get started building large-scale data analytic systems, you need to start with one crucial element: data. Collecting data, especially collecting lots of data, is harder than it seems. Data ingested with the wrong data model can be worse than no data at all, and a data...

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