Single-core performance has hit a ceiling, and building web-scale multi-core applications using imperative programming models is nightmarishly difficult. Parallel programming creates a new set of challenges, best practices and design patterns. Scala is designed to enable building scalable systems, elegantly blending functional and object oriented paradigms into an expressive and concise language, while retaining interoperability with Java. Scala is the fastest growing JVM programming language, being rapidly adopted by leading companies such as Twitter, LinkedIn and FourSquare.

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of the language, which managed to increase type safety while feeling more dynamic, being more concise and improving readability at the same time. We will see how Scala simplifies real life problems by empowering the developer with powerful functional programming primitives, without giving up on the object oriented paradigm. The overview includes tools for multi-core programming in Scala, the type system, collection framework and domain-specific languages. We’ll explore the power of compile-time meta-programming, which is made possible by the newly released Scala 2.10, and get a glimpse into what to expect from 2.11 in 2014.
We will also see how Scala helps overcome the inherent limitations of Java, such as type erasure, array covariance and boxing overhead.

Multiple examples emphasize how Scala pushes the JVM harder than any other mainstream language through the infinite number of boilerplate busters, increased type safety and productivity boosters from a Java developer’s perspective.

Sagie Davidovich is a technology enthusiast and a serial entrepreneur, actively involved in the Scala community and in constant touch with the Scala development team. Sagie serves as SVP R&D at newBrandAnalytics, an international social business intelligence company. Previously Sagie co-founded Delver, and served as VP R&D ad SemantiNet (AdExtent). In his spare time, Sagie speaks about technology, consults and invests in start-up companies and writes about his passion, semantic web, AI and the technological singularity onSingularityworld.com.
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