This talk is focusing on practical differences between three programming languages: Scala, Kotlin and Java8. It talks about practical daily programming, with bit of lambdas and collections. What is missing in Scala compared to Java8? When are you missing out if you decide for Java8? Is Kotlin better than Scala? …
Gilt, a billion dollar e-commerce company, implemented a sophisticated microservices architecture on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to handle millions of customers visiting their site at noon every day. The microservices architecture pattern enables independent service scaling, faster deployments, better fault isolation, and graceful degradation.
As a conceptual framework, functional programming empowers us to write software that is modular, highly reusable, and easy to reason about. But practicing this discipline in Scala comes with a number of difficulties and idiosyncrasies that need to be addressed. This video presents what functional programming is, brings up some …
This video provides an introduction to the Scala programming language. The presentation introduces both the object-oriented and functional aspects of Scala and also covers some more advanced topics like option types, for comprehensions and implicits. The talk provides some experience of introducing Scala to an existing Java ecosystem.
Scala is an excellent tool for big data cleaning, gleaning, and modeling. This video presents how Identified uses Scala to gain insights into people ranking and search. The talk provides an overview of the overall data flow, focuses on several points of interest and explains how Scala makes it all …
In the last few years, Scala and Scoobi have become the standard infrastructure at eBay. Alex Cozzi, a member of their Search Sciences Team, talks about his experience using the language and framework to develop MapReduce programs on Hadoop at eBay. This is a fun talk connecting advanced languages, big …
