Scala Days 2019

Scala Days had a tenth anniversary in 2019. It is an annual conference about Scala, which I like to visit, when possible. There is some confusion as to what is meant: Where this the 9th, 10th or 11th Scala Days? Where the first Scala Days 9, 10 or 11 years ago? The truth is, that …

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Scala Days 2018

In 2018 I visited Scala Days in Berlin with this schedule. Other than in previous years I missed the opening keynote, which is traditionally on the evening before the main conference starts, because this is not so well compatible with my choice of traveling with a night train, especially because I did not want to …

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ScalaUA 2018

About a week ago I visited Scala UA in Kiev. This was the schedule. It was a great conference once again, as it was already in 2017 and I really enjoyed everything, including the food, which was great again… 🙂 I listened to the following talks on the first day: Tales from the trenches, developing …

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Scala Exchange 2017

I have visited Scala Exchange („#ScalaX“) in London on 2017-12-14 and 2017-12-15. It was great, better than 2015 in my opinion. In 2016 I missed Scala Exchange in favor of Clojure Exchange. This time there were really many talks about category theory and of course its application to Scala. Spark, Big Data and Slick were …

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ScalaUA 2017

About a month ago I visted the conference ScalaUA in Kiev. This was the schedule. It was a great conference and I really enjoyed everything, including the food, which is quite unusual for an IT-conference.. 🙂 I listened to the following talks: First day: Kappa Architecture, Juantomás García Molina 50 shades of Scala Compiler, Krzysztof …

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Scala Days 2016

I have visited Scala Days in Berlin 2016-06-15 to 2016-06-17. A little remark on the format might be of interest. The conference is scheduled for 3 days. On the first day, there is only one speech, the first keynote, some time in the late afternoon. During Scala Days 2015 the rest of the day was …

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Scala Exchange 2015

It was possible to arrange a visit of Scala Exchange 2015 in London, short #ScalaX. I visited the following events: day 1: Keynote: Scaling Intelligence: moving ideas forward by Jessica Kerr Functional Patterns for FP beginners by Clément Delafargue Introduction to Apache Spark by Deenar Toraskar Keynote: Without Resilience, Nothing Else Matters by Jonas Bonér …

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Scala Days 2015

I have visited Scala Days 2015 in Amsterdam. As usual, I took the night train to get there and back. Creative Scala Prior to the conference we did a training session for Scala beginners together with underscore. Some volunteers, including myself, joined the effort and so we were actually more teachers than students. It was …

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Scala Exchange 2014

Deutsch I have been visiting the conference Scala eXchange ( #scalaX ) organized by Skillsmatter in London. Here is some information about the talks that I have attended and the highlights: The Binary Compatibility Challenge Martin Odersky Examples can be constructed for each of the four combinations of binary and source code compatibility. We wish …

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Scala Days in Berlin 2014

Deutsch Around mid of June 2014 I have been visiting the Scala Days in Berlin. Like usual these events contain a lot of speeches, which were distributed in four tracks, apart from the key notes. The event location was a cinama, like the Devoxx in Antwerp, but this time one that has been transformed to …

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