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In this post, I will try to share with you all a functional pattern I stumbled upon recently – Tagless Final. This pattern tries to address a vital problem for every software engineer: how to make sure the programs we write are correct? I will try to explain how Tagless Final works and how it […]

Code review is (or at least should be) a common practice in the modern programming world. This is the place where the character and skills of different programmers meet. It’s meant to improve the quality and engage others to acknowledge the whole codebase in more practical means. But probably, just like me, you have encountered […]

Introduction In this article, we will take a closer look at the core of Akka in an attempt to improve its overall performance. To begin with, we will provide a short overview of the Akka toolkit and the Actor system. Following that we will study the life cycle of a message in order to gain […]

This post is about creating relatively simple project with Freestyle, my adventures during this process and some afterthoughts.

Binding.scala is a one-way data-binding library written in Scala. It lets you create reactive user interfaces by writing concise Scala code. In this post, I’ll guide you step by step through the basics, as well as creating a simple dynamic web page. On top of that, I will discuss some undocumented issues I faced, which might […]

In Why you should know Monix I’ve taken a brief look at some of Monix’s abstractions and utilities, but I haven’t dived into implementing reactive streams elements. This time I’m going to build Consumer and Observer for RabbitMQ message broker.

If you are a Scala developer for some time you are probably familiar with the concept of Lenses. It got a lot of traction in the community as it resolves the very common problem of modifying deeply nested case classes. But what is not that universally known is that there are more similar abstractions. They […]

Why Monix In this short blog post – in just 10 minutes or less –  I’m going to attempt to present what Monix library is and try to convince you why you really need to get to know it. Formerly known as Monifu, Monix is a library for asynchronous programming in Scala and Scala.js It contains several […]

In this post, we will look at how primitive Scala types such as Int and Long are represented down to the bytecode level. This will help us understand what the performance effects of using them in generic classes are. We will also explore the functionalities that the Scala compiler provides us for mitigating such performance penalties. Furthermore, we will […]

Seasoned speakers have a saying “there are two groups of people: those who use speaking skills to improve their lives and those who are too scared to seize the opportunity”. I think it hits the mark. Communication skills are in high demand in every industry, from marketing to IT. For us, developers, good communication and […]