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Introduction I am a Scala developer who had been working with Java and occasionally Javascript / Typescript for a few years before I transitioned to Scala and fell in love with programming all over again. I am currently working on a huge project for an international company that consists of many complex services written in […]

This article was inspired by a great blog post by Adam Warski, who wrote a comparison of Slick, Doobie, Quill and ScalikeJDBC a few years ago. As ZIO SQL just had its first non-production release, I wanted to add ZIO SQL to the mix and see how it compares to others. Therefore, in the Tour […]

While designing an API we need to make a lot of choices. Among others, we need to decide which protocol to use to communicate between services. Common designs consist of many services, so we need to choose the protocol for all of them. In the past, in the monolith architecture era, we had an API […]

Suppose you are a Scala developer who has decided to learn ZIO. Maybe you’ve heard that it’s the future of Scala and that every Scala developer will be using it in a couple of years. Maybe you have listened to an interesting talk about how it can solve hard problems in a very straightforward and […]

Functional World meetup is a global event aimed at improving learning and knowledge sharing among developers with a passion for functional programming. This year’s edition was focused on the ZIO Scala library. In that vein, we invited developer and ZIO enthusiast Marcin Krykowski to speak about the functional power of ZIO Tests. Marcin previously worked […]

Introdução O paradigma de programação funcional é frequentemente evitado por desenvolvedores de todo o mundo, que preferem continuar desenvolvendo aplicativos usando um paradigma de programação orientado a objetos, que é mais conhecido e mais amplamente utilizado. Essa rejeição da programação funcional acontece por simples falta de conhecimento ou porque os desenvolvedores tendem a achar que […]

ZIO World is the leading annual global ZIO-based event created by Ziverge. The event aims to inspire new trends, promote innovation, and reveal significant developments across the ZIO ecosystem. ZIO World invites developers to share their expertise in using ZIO. This year, ZIO World hosted Scalac developer and ZIO contributor Jorge Vásquez. His presentation focused on […]

As a young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed engineer starting my career at NASA in the 90s, I was fortunate enough to develop engineering-oriented software that modeled the different parts of the International Space Station. The million-line codebase was based on objects. Almost every part of the space station was represented as an object, from the overall segments […]

OpenTelemetry provides you with a set of tools, integrations, APIs, and SDKs in different languages to more easily increase the observability of your application. We figured that, since we’re working on an OpenTelemetry agent extension called Mesmer, we could show you the project from a developer’s perspective and point you to the parts that could […]

In recent years the Front-End world has been shaken by the emergence of a lot of libraries and frameworks based on web components, which have flooded pages that until then had been based on jQuery and Backbone. Between those, and the arrival of React and its states, doors opened up to a brand new reactive […]