Notes from… Scaling webapps with Akka [live blog]
Akka is a Scala based framework for creating robust and scalable distributed applications, and (along with the Lift web framework), has been one of the poster boys for the Scala dev community. Given the [relative] naivety of Scala programming language I was intrigued to see what was actually possible with these frameworks from the trenches. Tonight’s presentations from Maciej Matyjas (@matyjas) at skillsmatter offered to show exactly these possibilities using both Lift and Akka to build a scalable webapp with remote actors, and also using sbt as the build tool (sbt purporting to be the Scala good cop equivalent of Maven).
Shortcut Domain Objects in Scala
This article hopes to demonstrate that even if the use of Scala is restricted to/ bounded by the OO paradigm, it is still WIN packed. Continue reading
Scala… As good as it gets…
As good as it gets was a film starring Jack Nicholson, in which he played a misathropic writer who also happened to suffer from OCD. What bearing has this got with Scala ? Well non-directly, or even indirectly TBH, though I’d say that if Scala were best represented by any psychological disorder, it would most likely be some flavour of bipolar disorder. Scala really does seem to be a modern programming Marmite, where developers either love it or hate it. With no real middle ground being forged between the two. I personally find this quite ironic given the ‘maleability’ of Scala as a programming tool. Continue reading