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Scalac invited Natan Silnitsky, who works as a senior backend infrastructure developer at Wix.com, to speak at its “Between Business & Tech” conference. In his excellent presentation, Natan spoke about how Wix leverages tailored models to build highly efficient event-driven, distributed microservice environments. Wix is a website-building platform with more than two hundred million registered […]

The background of the article: A software development company at the heart of tech community. We were very happy to visit the 2021 Web Summit in Lisbon. Despite the city being stormy and unwelcoming at first sight, we found it a really pleasant place to hang out and spend 3 busy days at the conference. […]

How can pure functionality take your project to a whole new level? Now you have a chance to get insider information from professionals with invaluable knowledge resulting from years of experience.  We asked 7 ZIO and Scala developers from various companies (including Univalence, PPC Samurai, MATECHS, CreditSCRIPT, rudder.io) a few questions about ZIO. Now we […]

The React library has been building its recognition and functionality already for eight years. We know that it is very beneficial for frontend developers, but ​​what role does the Scala programming language play in this? Can Scala be a backend for React Native? React debuted over eight years ago on March 1, 2013. The latest […]

Functional World is a global online event that Scalac created to exist as a place for the programming community and functional freaks who will communicate with people from all over the world. The conference formula is streamed and available on YouTube. To broaden the horizons beyond the Scala theme which was the main theme of […]

Scalar is one of the largest conferences in Central Europe. It started its activities in 2014. The Scalar community focuses on supporting people interested in the Scala programming language. It allows them to develop their programming skills, learn Scala, and delve into more and more theories with practical use. From 2014 to 2019, the conference was […]

TLDR: Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ]  Q: What is the Actor Model A: Imagine Object-Oriented Paradigm. Now make it distributed.  Q: Scaling? I already have that with Serverless A: With the Actor Model you can remove latency. No need for database queries, the data is at your disposal on your server. Q: Low Latency? Didn’t Akka […]

In this article, we'll explore why people still consider Scala to be a hard language to learn, then we'll debunk that myth. I'll show you,

The Scale By The Bay conference is deeply attached to the idea to bring together the global leaders in data, operations, Machine Learning, and the art and craft of software engineering. The conference has been organized for nine years. Since then, the group of speakers has grown and for now, there are one thousand speakers […]

The ScalaDays Conference deals with strictly technological topics related to this programming language. Its purpose is to increase the functionality of related activities, facilitate work, and provide any tips linked to the Scala programming language. The Scalac Team has been attending the conference for years now, getting involved in the agenda, and constantly supporting the […]