Scala does the catwalk

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We've heard how Twitter and LinkedIn adopted Scala on greenfield initiatives and we're excited to use a more expressive language running on a robust, familiar VM. But is the ecosystem ready to support the demands of a long-established enterprise infrastructure, mission-critical (non-Scala!) middleware and the traditional dev-test-release workflow?

We'll start by exposing what drove our decision to dive into Scala. Next: We'll talk about some of the challenges we faced designing, building, load testing and debugging our service. We will discuss some of the patterns we used moving to a more reactive platform, the availability/maturity of the tooling and some of the framework code we had to write. Finally we'll outline the benefits gained through embarking on this project and any prices we have paid for doing so.

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