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...

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...

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.

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...

Ammonite: rock-solid shell scripting in Scala

Featuring Li Haoyi

Most people using Scala use it to build high-performance, type-safe applications. People talk about how Scala lets them scale-up: more servers, more code, more developers, more maintainability. Unfortunately, underneath these applications usually lives a rats-nest of bash-scripts and other things...

Reactive in practice: web services with Scala and AWS

Featuring Matt Roberts

In this talk you will discover how to create reactive web services with Akka HTTP, Slick and AWS. In particular, Matt will focus on how to design, implement and deploy a RESTful web service.

A deep dive into scalac

Featuring Chris Birchall

Ever since Chris heard the rumour that compilation involved 27 phases, he has kept his distance from scalac, telling himself that people smarter than him were taking care of it. But it's time to stop living in ignorance and fear. Let's tame the compiler!

Scala and Akka and Docker, oh my!

Featuring Mario Camou

In this talk Mario will show you how to take advantage of Docker containers to ease development, testing and deployment of Scala applications, especially those that are based on Akka.

Distributed Real-Time Stream Processing: Why and How

Featuring Petr Zapletal

In this talk you will discover various state-of-the-art open-source distributed streaming frameworks, their similarities and differences, implementation trade-offs, their intended use-cases, and how to choose between them. Petr will focus on the popular frameworks, including Spark Streaming,...

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Workshop: Mind blown: Crafting a Distributed Data Science Pipeline using Spark, Cassandra, Akka and the Spark Notebook

Featuring Andy Petrella and Xavier Tordoir

Get your hands dirty with distributed tools, during these two hours we’ll have a quick overview on how a dataset can be processed in a distributed way towards the exposition exposition as a web service.

The tool we’ll use for this are Spark, Cassandra, Akka HTTP and the Spark Notebook.

A primary...