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In this post, we’ll look at what the Typelevel ecosystem looks like in 2018, and how its various libraries interact with each other. In particular, we’ll focus on how we can compose some of these libraries to build a complete application, in a purely functional fashion. This will not be a tutorial for Cats (there […]

A pretty hot topic lately is machine learning – the inter-sectional discipline closely related to computational statistics that lets computers learn without being explicitly programmed. It has been found to be of significant use in the field of data analytics – from estimating loan and insurance risk to trying to autonomously steer a car in […]

JWT Authentication in a React-Redux app Are you currently working on JWT authentication in React and Redux App? Don’t you know how to handle it? In this article we will cover a sign in process step by step. These days, authentication is very important and commonly used aspect in modern web. It is for identifying […]

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 […]