Scala Days Conferences Courses

Choose Your Own Scala Center Roadmap

Interactive discussion on Scala Center's projects, covering tooling, language, education, community, and sustainability, with audience participation to shape the conversation.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Productionizing Big Data - Stories from the Trenches

Uncover mysteries of data pipeline anomalies, learn approaches to fixing and preventing issues, and gain insights into handling real-world production challenges in big data and AdTech.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

When Your DSL Needs to Support User-Defined Functions

Technique for implementing DSLs with user-defined domain functions using abstract arrows and lambda syntax. Enables clean point-free representation for programs and familiar notation for users.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Resource Management Made Easy - Introducing Resource from Cats-Effect Library

Explore Resource from cats-effect library for efficient resource management in Scala, covering error handling, composition, and advanced use cases like queue consumption and Stream transformation.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Introduction to Smithy and Smithy4s - Code Generation for Scala

Explore Smithy, AWS's declarative language for defining services, and Smithy4s, a Scala code generator. Learn how these tools streamline development and enable protocol-agnostic service descriptions.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Load Testing Made Easy with Gatling - Using Scala 3 for GraphQL API Testing

Learn to simulate complex load testing scenarios for APIs using Scala 3 and Gatling. Discover techniques for generating random GraphQL queries and creating realistic user traffic patterns to assess system performance.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Tyqu - Typesafe SQL Queries in Scala

Introducing Tyqu: A Scala library for type-safe SQL queries. Leverages Scala 3 features for convenient, functional-style database interactions with compile-time checks and runtime code generation.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Scala and Spark in the New Deep Learning Era

Explore integrating large language models into big data infrastructures using Apache Spark, Scala, and BigDL. Learn distributed fine-tuning for pre-trained models and their representation as Spark estimators.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Teaching Domain Specific Languages in Scala

Explore Scala's suitability for Domain Specific Language development, covering functional modeling, parser combinators, metaprogramming, and practical implementation in Visual Studio Code using Scala.js.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Why Dolly Is Just the Beginning for Open LLM Models

Explore the evolution of open LLMs, focusing on Dolly's impact and the potential for fine-tuning smaller models with proprietary data to gain a competitive edge in AI development.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Building Billion Node Graphs for Machine Learning

Explore building billion-node graphs for machine learning, covering data ingestion, graph management, and algorithm execution at scale. Learn about challenges and solutions in handling massive datasets for GraphML research.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How Does Incremental Compilation Work with Scala 3

Explore incremental compilation in Scala 3: its principles, changes, and potential improvements for faster build times, with insights on project organization and optimization techniques.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

AI Assisted Development

Exploring AI's impact on Scala development, from TDD to code generation, and discussing future possibilities for AI-assisted programming.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Use Spark from Anywhere - A Spark Client in Scala Powered by Spark Connect

Explore Spark Connect's client-server architecture, enabling remote connectivity to Spark clusters from various environments. Learn how to leverage Spark's power in modern data applications, IDEs, and programming languages.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Writing a Database in Scala.js

Explore the development of a browser-based database using Scala.js, focusing on fundamental concepts, Scala's unique features, and practical lessons learned in database design and implementation.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk