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Cats Effect 3 - Racing IOs

5 minute read

After the previous introduction to concurrency in Cats Effect, we’ll look at how to manage racing IOs and fibers.

Scala 3: Extension Methods

4 minute read

Deconstructing extension methods, one of the most exciting features of the upcoming Scala 3.

Akka Typed: Adapting Messages

7 minute read

In this article we’ll see a good practice for organizing code, messages, domains and logic in an Akka application with Scala.

Semigroups and Monoids in Scala

7 minute read

This article is about Monoids and Semigroups as a gentle introduction to functional abstractions and to how the Cats library works.

Organizing Services with ZIO and ZLayers

12 minute read

ZIO layers (ZLayers) help us structure our complex services into modules that are independent, composable and easy to understand. Let’s take a look.

Value Classes in Scala

12 minute read

An ad-hoc type definition technique for eliminating bugs which are hard to trace, with implementations in Scala 2 via newtypes and in Scala 3 via opaque types.