A Scala project with Akka, Cats and Cassandra
Akka, Cats and Cassandra in a bigger Scala project integrating multiple pieces in the Scala ecosystem.
Recent posts
Akka Typed: Actor Discovery
A common pattern in Akka Typed: how to find actors that are not explicitly passed around.
How to make a Snake game in Scala
The ultimate 10-minute tutorial to a Snake game in Scala.
FS2 Tutorial: More than Functional Streaming in Scala
The ultimate tutorial to purely functional streams in Scala with FS2.
Streaming Analytics with Apache Pulsar and Spark Structured Streaming
We’ll discuss the role Apache Pulsar plays in the event streaming and computing landscape, the use cases you can implement with Pulsar and when more advanced...
A 2021 Retrospective
Wrapping up 2021 with an overview of what’s happened this year at Rock the JVM.
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.