A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on ...

For the past two years, my day-to-day programming language has been Scala. Scala is a hybrid language that combines the approaches of object-orientation and functional programming. You can treat Scala ...

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Scala is essentially the C++ of high level (ergo, memory managed) languages on the JVM. It supports many paradigms equally, and due to this, it has sacrificed the "simplicity" of the language. Even ...

The name Scala is actually an abbreviation, or perhaps more accurately, a condensing of the two words Scalable Language, demonstrating right from the start that the language itself was intended from ...

Steven Reynolds (a “software developer and manager” who works at INT) presented “A Brief Introduction to Scala” at JavaOne 2010. [As a side note, JavaFX Script is a casualty announced at JavaOne 2010, ...

One more than one occasion, I’ve found myself yearning for a more functional paradigm that facilitates easier concurrency programming on the JVM. And while Erlang is an excellent platform for ...

Scala is a statically typed, general-purpose programming language that supports both object-oriented and functional programming. Scala code can be compiled to Java bytecode, JavaScript, or native ...