Scala Days: 11 of the Best Speakers Share Their Slides

The slides behind some of the best talks at Scala Days Scala Days Amsterdam has swept us with tons of…

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Backpressure in action with websockets and akka-streams

So in the previous article I showed how you could create a websocket server using akka-streams. In this follow up…

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Neo4j: The BBC Champions League graph

A couple of weekends ago I started scraping the BBC live text feed of the Bayern Munich/Barcelona match, initially starting…

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Akka samples with scala and Spring

I was looking around recently for Akka samples with Spring and found a starter project which appeared to fit the…

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The Bet With Typesafe That Got Me Into Building Akka

Back to the drawing board: The lost lines of code on the road to Akka Streams, Akka HTTP and Akka…

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Scala Snippet: How to filter a list in Scala

In Scala, filtering and processing collections is easy and elegant. There are many filtermethods available, but the most used will…

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Spark: Generating CSV files to import into Neo4j

About a year ago Ian pointed me at a Chicago Crime data set which seemed like a good fit for…

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Scala Snippet: Object, Companion Object and Static Methods

If you are a Java developer moving to Scala, one notable difference in terminology that can cause confusion is the…

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Scala Snippet: Case Class vs plain ordinary Class

In Scala there exist the construct of a ‘case class’. According to Martin Odersky this supports you to write a…

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