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April 2026 | Issue #2 Welcome back. In March we covered MCP as a protocol debate. In April the reality arrived. Claude Code hit a wall on Hacker News: 738 points, 458 comments as engineers reported regressions in complex engineering tasks. MCP and A2A protocols crossed into production maturity. The vibe coding era meets production […]

March 2026 | Issue #1 Welcome to SIGNAL. This is a monthly briefing for CTOs, VP Engineering, and Chief Architects running distributed systems at scale. We don’t aggregate news. We aggregate lessons. Every month: one architecture debate with real trade-offs, one production war story with solutions, and three critical signals with business context. No hype […]

Imagine Lausanne brimming with Scala energy – streets filled with developers, CTOs, and tech leaders buzzing with anticipation. Scala Days Switzerland 2025 felt like a glimpse into the future of Scala, where experimentation meets opportunities waiting to be embraced. For three days, over 300 developers, architects, and Scala enthusiasts from across the globe came together […]

Rust and Scala are used to build high-performance backend systems, but they take very different approaches. Neither language is “better” overall – each excels in different use cases. In this article, we provide a neutral, developer-focused comparison of Rust and Scala in terms of concurrency, stream processing, shared state, programming style, error handling, and memory […]

June was big. For AI, for innovation, and for us at Scalac! Earlier this month, we had the chance to attend NVIDIA GTC Paris 2025, one of the key events in the world of accelerated computing and enterprise AI. This year, GTC made its mark in Paris, bringing together industry leaders, innovators, and tech visionaries […]

“Two CTOs walk into the bar…” What happens when two CTOs passionate about the Akka platform, distributed systems, and tech in general sit down for a conversation? Innovation takes center stage. We’re excited to announce the launch of our brand-new podcast: CTO asks CTO – a series dedicated to in-depth conversations between technology leaders. All […]

From Figma to React: Introduction Recently, within our team, a discussion emerged about converting designs made in Figma into React code. This conversation was sparked due to the constant evolution of tools available for developers. While the possibility of converting design to code has existed for some time, its implementation has been, frankly speaking, suboptimal. […]

At the beginning of the new year, at Scalac we’re taking a look back for a moment to appreciate 2023 and what it brought. It was a bumpy ride at times, but the experiences and new perspectives we gathered along the way have been priceless. This is the ninth year for us as an expert […]

Traditional hiring vs team-extension In the fiercely competitive arena of IT, companies grapple with strategies that will drive them ahead of the curve. The goal is straightforward yet immensely challenging: achieving operational excellence and innovation prowess. Herein, a pivotal factor emerges—the acquisition of top-tier talent proficient in driving tech objectives forward with expert skills. Choosing […]