A 2021 Retrospective
Wrapping up 2021 with an overview of what’s happened this year at Rock the JVM.
Recent posts
Learn Doobie for the Greater Good
We rely on the JDBC specification if we need to connect to SQL databases in the JVM ecosystem. However, JDBC is not a good fit if we use functional programmi...
Tagless Final in Scala
Demystifying the tagless final pattern in Scala. TLDR: it’s got nothing to do with type classes.
Evaluation Modes in Scala
We’ll take a look at some core Scala constructs and look at them from a different angle than we’re used to.
Akka Streams Backpressure
Akka Streams implements backpressure, a critical component of the Reactive Streams specification. This article is a demonstration of this mechanism.