Slick: Bringing Scala’s Powerful Features to Your Database Access

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Here at EatingWell, we have learned quite a bit about Slick over the past two years as we transitioned from a PHP website to Scala. I will share with you tips and tricks we have learned, as well as everything you need to get started using Slick in your Scala application.

I will begin with Slick fundamentals: how to get started making your connection, the types of databases it can access, how to actually create table objects and make queries to and from them. We will using these fundamentals to demonstrate the powerful features inherited from the Scala language itself: static-checking, compile-time safety, and compositionality. And throughout I will share plenty of tips that will help you in everything from getting started to connection pooling options and configuration for use at scale.

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