Tagless Final in Scala
Demystifying the tagless final pattern in Scala. TLDR: it’s got nothing to do with type classes.
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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.
Kafka Streams 101
Apache Kafka is clearly the leading technology concerning message brokers, and Kafka Streams brings a complete stateful streaming system based directly on to...
Type-Level Programming in Scala 3, Part 2: A Quicksort on Types
Level 90 of type-level programming: a real sorting algorithm on lists… as types.
Type-Level Programming in Scala 3, Part 1: Comparing Types
Learning how to use the power of givens to infer type relationships in Scala 3… at compile time.
Event Streaming with Apache Pulsar and Scala
Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform that manages hundreds of billions of events per day. We’ll learn what makes it ...
Custom Pattern Matching in Scala
Pattern matching is one of Scala’s most powerful features. In this article, we’ll how to customize it and create our own patterns.
Another Take at Monads: A Way to Generalize Chained Computations
We’ve talked about monads quite a lot on Rock the JVM. In this article, we’ll approach them from yet another angle.
ZIO Kafka: A Practical Streaming Tutorial
Apache Kafka has proven itself as a reliable and scalable communication bus between distributed application components. We’ll learn to use ZIO to interact wi...