NEW #ScalaX 2018 #SkillsCast: Greg Dorrell - Concurrency and Asynchrony in #Scala ed.gr/5fko #Akka #Monix #FS2 #CatsEffect

Quotes today from an ops colleague outside the FP bubble: "Remember those Scala codebases? I miss them, they never went down" "...had 100s of null pointers in the logs in this JS app. Never had one with the FP ones" "...this Scala app, launched & didn't go down in 8 months"

Thankfully "show how clever you are" questions seem to be way less common than I thought before I started speaking. Plus I think the audience can tell the difference.

post: We should justify efforts to improve internal quality of software based on its ability to reduce costs of future enhancements. It's a counter-intuitive view, but one that reflects our reality martinfowler.com/articles/is-qu…

Effect Types: What? Why? Which one? buff.ly/2Wu7DQy by Greg Dorrell

Cats 2.0.0 is released. The major version is bumped mainly because we broke binary compatibility on cats-laws (together with alleycats and cats-testkit), but the core modules: cats-cores and cats-kernels remain binary compatible with Cats 1.x. Kudos to all contributors!

Cool to see that people are looking to hire Slinky developers specifically now! gitter.im/shadaj/slinky?… #scala #scalajs #react

In case someone is wondering about the timing, the PR was stuck for a few days due to an issue with our CI. Once we fixed the CI, the bot rebased the PR (of course)

Then a huge one for Rúnar and his "Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain" which is the most influential talk I ever watched. I keep finding myself referencing it almost every week and it hugely affected my thinking about software design. #ScalaThankYou

Very good news about Skillsmatter! skillsmatter.com

Excited to share that I’m working on the second edition of Functional Programming in Scala.

New to #Scala? While not attend Scalabase a ✨free✨conf on 1⃣4⃣th of May crafted for developers at the early stages of their scala journey! Talks from Daniela Sfregola, Noel, Francesca Hammond, MarjiK,Asjad Baig, Daniel Oakey, & Emily Misoni!

Write the code that you would deploy on a Friday afternoon.

Full Stack Scala with the Play Framework and Scala.js by Greg Dorrell #DevoxxUK buff.ly/2tNcfY3

Bought a $400 DRM juicer? Well, they’re shutting down. So now it’s a paperweight 😬 theverge.com/2017/9/1/16243…

Every time Git/Github/continuous integration/etc causes me to need to push a vacuous commit to trigger something I do a doc update instead.

Duck typing?

This guy heated up his RAM with a heat gun to debug a Go runtime bug. marcan.st/2017/12/debugg… I hereby nominate him to most persistent Gopher of the year award.

Happy Belated Birthday #Scala.js 🎂 Takes us back to our 2nd meetup back in 2016 where Greg Dorrell gave us his insight, how time flies! x.com/scala_js/statu…

Learn from experts: full set of talks from #ScalarConf 2018 is available: youtube.com/playlist?list=… cc: Pawel Szulc 🙏 override lazy val ❤️ @davegurnell Krzysztof Ciesielski Marcin Matuszak grajo Jon Pretty Chris Birchall Roman Grebennikov Stefano Bonetti Janek P Jarek Flanders Jacek Kunicki Bartosz Marcin Gosk