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Bevorstehende Events (4+)
Alles ansehen- Women in Scala: From Paradigms to Percussion & Hands On with Creative ScalaSiriusXM, London
🎉 Come along to Women in Scala! 🎉
Please note that you must identify as a woman in order to attend this event.We're delighted to hear from Priyanka Bose on her beginner's journey with Scala and drums, and then dive into Scala ourselves in a creative hands-on session. Bring your laptops for this event because we'll be getting hands on!
Agenda
6:00pm - 🍕 Socialising: Join us for some free food and drinks! Vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options are provided. Let us know if you'd like something special - we'd be happy to accommodate.
6:40 pm - 🗣️ Priyanka Bose: From Paradigms to Percussion: A Beginner’s parallel Journey (and struggles) with Scala and Drums
7:30 pm - 💻 Hands-on programming with Creative Scala!
9:00pm - 🍹 Join us at a pub!🗣️ From Paradigms to Percussion: A Beginner’s parallel Journey (and struggles) with Scala and Drums
Learning a new programming language can feel overwhelming—so can learning to play a musical instrument. Around the same time I picked up Scala at work, I picked up a pair of drumsticks at home. I didn’t expect these experiences to have anything in common, but I was wrong. In both, I struggled to unlearn old habits, to think in new patterns, and to find rhythm—literal and metaphorical.
This talk is a reflection on that dual learning curve. Along the way, I’ll walk through how functional programming in Scala shares some surprising traits with drumming: recursion and rhythm, muscle memory and syntax, constraints as creative tools. I’ll also talk about the differences—where programming relies on precision, music often embraces feel—and how navigating both worlds helped me become more intentional in how I learn anything new.
This is not a talk about mastering Scala or music theory. It’s a talk about being a beginner, being frustrated, making progress, and discovering unexpected joy in the process. I hope to share relatable stories, visual and mental metaphors for programming concepts, and reflections that apply whether you’re learning Scala, drums, or just trying to get better at getting better.🌟Priyanka Bose 🌟
Hi, I’m Priyanka Bose — software engineer by day, drummer by night, and a full-time pop culture enthusiast. I work at SiriusXM as a Software Engineer III on the API Tooling team, where I build platforms that make other developers’ lives easier.I first joined SXM as a summer intern in 2024 after graduating from New York University with a Master’s in Computer Engineering, then came on full-time in September — the very same day I picked up my first pair of drumsticks. Four months later, I was playing my first live band gig in NYC. 💥
Outside of tech, I’m obsessed with reading (82 books last year!), competitive pool (yes, I’ve won tournaments), and music (I never skip it — ever). My current fave? Dua Lipa, hands down.
I’m deeply passionate about building a more inclusive tech industry. As a 2023 Quad Fellow, I care about the broader impact STEM can have on society — not just through innovation, but through equity. My long-term goal is to grow into a leadership role where I can actively champion and support women and other underrepresented communities in tech.
Catch me coding, cueing up a playlist, or plotting my next band set — ideally all at once.Priyanka will be presenting from the US. You'll be able to ask her questions over livestream.
💻 Hands On Session with Creative Scala 💻
Bring your laptops for this event because we'll be getting hands on!
In this session, we'll be programming with Creative Scala - a fun way to explore and practise functional programming with Scala.
Whether you are completely new to Scala or experienced with functional programming, all levels of experience are welcome! Perhaps you're looking for some help getting set up as a beginner. Perhaps you want to practise your programming skills with peers. Perhaps you want to take a break from your day job and flex your curiosity in a fun environment! Sit back, relax, explore, and learn by doing... ✨————————————————————
🗣️ Would you like to present, but are not sure how to start? Give a talk with us and you'll receive mentorship from a trained toastmaster! Get in touch through this form and we'll get you started
🏡 Interested in hosting or supporting us? Please get in touch through this form and we can discuss how you can get involved.
📜 All London Scala User Group events operate under the Scala Community Code of Conduct:
https://www.scala-lang.org/conduct/
We encourage each of you to report the breach of the conduct, either anonymously through this form or by contacting one of our team members. We guarantee privacy and confidentiality, as well as that we will take your report seriously and react quickly. - Scala Talks: Hands-On Capture Checking & Scala Native live-coding ☀️Medidata , London
🎉 Come along to the London Scala Talks! 🎉
Summer is upon us and it's time to get active!
What's more active than, not just one, but TWO cutting-edge Scala live-coding talks!? 💥 Check out the details of the talk below!Agenda
6:00pm - 🥤 Doors open. Come along and grab a drink!
6:40pm - 🗣️ Nicolas Rinaudo: Hands-On Capture Checking
7:40pm - 🍕 Intermission: Join us for some free food and drinks! Vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options are provided. Let us know if you'd like something special - we'd be happy to accommodate.
8:15pm - 🗣️ Anton Sviridov: Scala Native Live-coding
~9:00pm - 🍻 Join us in the pub to discuss the talks!This meetup will NOT have a livestream.
🗣️ Nicolas Rinaudo: Hands-On Capture Checking
Capture checking is an experimental Scala feature and one of the building blocks of the very trendy direct style programming. It’s also, not to put too fine a point on it, a little confusing. In this live coding session, we will explore the aspects that most Scala users will be exposed to, as understood by a regular developer after poring over the very academic documentation and experimenting with nightly builds.⭐ Nicolas Rinaudo ⭐
Nicolas writes code for JPMorgan, where we use Scala to make some very complicated things seem very simple. After too many years as a Java programmer and a thankfully brief stint in marketing, Nicolas discovered Functional Programming through Scala and fell in love. Since then, he’s made it his mission to learn and explain the scary bits, by focusing on practical applications. Nicolas is also the author and sole maintainer of a few useful OSS libraries, such as kantan.csv - https://nrinaudo.github.io/kantan.csv/.🗣️ Anton Sviridov: Scala Native Live-coding
Due to popular demand, Anton is back with more Scala Native!
He'll be taking us on a journey of working with C libraries, marrying C code with SN interop, and maybe writing some assembly.⭐ Anton Sviridov ⭐
Scala enthusiast, open source contributor, and blog author. Worked in Data Science, distributed systems, and programming language tooling. Recently I have been diving deeper into systems programming languages and the lessons we can learn from them to be applicable to Scala Native.————————————————————
🗣️ Would you like to present, but are not sure how to start? Give a talk with us and you'll receive mentorship from a trained toastmaster! Get in touch through this form and we'll get you started
🏡 Interested in hosting or supporting us? Please get in touch through this form and we can discuss how you can get involved.
📜 All London Scala User Group events operate under the Scala Community Code of Conduct.
We encourage each of you to report the breach of the conduct, either anonymously through this form or by contacting one of our team members. We guarantee privacy and confidentiality, as well as that we will take your report seriously and react quickly. - Scala Open Source Hack Night @ Depop!Depop , London
Calling all Scala enthusiasts! Join us for a fun night of hacking, collaborating, and contributing to open-source projects. Whether you’re a seasoned Scala developer or just getting started, this is the perfect opportunity to level up your skills, meet like-minded coders, and contribute to Open Source!
Agenda:
6:00pm - Doors open. Start mingling (with drinks and nibbles 🍻)
6:15pm - Quick introduction & Find your hackmates!
6:30pm - Start coding!
9:00pm - Wrap upWhat will happen on the day?
After a quick introduction, we will help everyone find a project they want to work on and disperse into groups.
At end of the evening we'll gather up and share what we've done and learned that day :)Frequently Asked Questions
I am a novice Scala developer, is this the right event for me? 📚
Yes! One of the best ways to improve your Scala skills is by working on Open Source library and projects!
If you're completely new to Scala / programming, ScalaBridge is a great way to get started!I don't know what projects I should contribute to.. ↔️
We have a list of Scala projects that would love to have some contributions. Other than get-work-done libraries, we have cool projects like game engine, frontend framework, synthesiser!I have an idea for a Open Source project but it's a bit daunting. Can you help? 🏔️
Yes! We'd love to see more open source Scala projects and contributors! We can help you get started and provide technical guidance whenever you need it.Help! I'm stuck outside the building / somewhere!
Joining our discord is probably the best way to be heard!Discord server invite link:
https://discord.com/invite/aRCVCHmHESThe chatroom is #oss-hack-night. Ping @Jacob Wang if you need urgent attention!
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📜 All London Scala User Group events operate under the Scala Community Code of Conduct:
https://www.scala-lang.org/conduct/
We encourage each of you to report the breach of the conduct, either anonymously through this form or by contacting one of our team members. We guarantee privacy and confidentiality, as well as that we will take your report seriously and react quickly. - Scala Talks: A deep dive into streaming with fs2 & Mystery talkThe Trade Desk, London
🎉 Come along to the London Scala Talks! 🎉
In this event you'll hear from Zainab Ali and a mystery speaker.Agenda
6:00pm - 🥤 Doors open. Come along and grab a drink!
6:40pm - 🗣️ Zainab Ali: Taking the plunge: a deep dive into streaming with fs2
7:20pm - 🍕 Intermission: Join us for some free food and drinks! Vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options are provided. Let us know if you'd like something special - we'd be happy to accommodate.
7:50pm - 🗣️ Mystery speaker: mystery talk
8:30pm - 🥤 Socialising: Grab a drink and let's discuss the talks.
9:00pm - 🍻 Join us in The Butcher's Hook and Cleaver pub to discuss the talks!🌐 This event has a live stream. Join the webinar at 6:40PM. Watch this space for more details.
🗣️ Zainab Ali: Taking the plunge: a deep dive into streaming with fs2
We often think of streaming as a niche concern: something that occurs in large scale data-intensive systems, or event driven architectures. But streams are a lot more versatile than you might suspect. In fact, they form the cornerstone of almost every useful Scala application.In this talk, we’ll navigate the rich waters of streaming.
Using the lens of `fs2`, a functional streaming library, we’ll explore how certain problems can be expressed much more easily using streams. We’ll spot the more obvious streams in event-based systems and data processing, webservers and databases, but also discover more subtle streams in time-based processes and concurrency challenges.
We’ll learn what streams are for, how to think about them, when to use them and when not to. By the end, you’ll see a streaming framework as a simple and versatile tool in your toolbox, and will feel confident putting it to use in any area of your codebase.
⭐ Zainab Ali ⭐
Zainab Ali is a functional programming trainer, open source contributor and organizer of the London Scala User Group. For the past seven years, she’s helped developers master the art of functional programming in Scala. The author of Functional Stream Processing in Scala, she’s particularly interested in the art of reasoning through concurrent systems and incremental processes.🗣️ Mystery speaker: Mystery talk
Watch this space for more details!
⭐ Mystery speaker ⭐
Watch this space for more details!Frequently Asked Questions
I can’t get into The Trade Desk!
To attend our event hosted by The Trade Desk you will need to be registered with the building. Please provide your name and email address when registering.
Before the event, you’ll receive an email from “One Bartholomew” titled “Your appointment at One Bartholomew”. If this is your first time at The Trade Desk, you will need to fill in an online form. Following this, you will be sent a QR code.
On arrival, enter the building and scan the QR code at the barriers to access and see the lift on the display (A-F). The lift will send you to the 10th floor.
After exiting the lift, make your way to The Trade Desk reception.
You can find detailed instructions here .
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🗣️ Would you like to present, but are not sure how to start? Give a talk with us and you'll receive mentorship from a trained toastmaster! Get in touch through this form and we'll get you started
🏡 Interested in hosting or supporting us? Please get in touch through this form and we can discuss how you can get involved.
📜 All London Scala User Group events operate under the Scala Community Code of Conduct.
We encourage each of you to report the breach of the conduct, either anonymously through this form or by contacting one of our team members. We guarantee privacy and confidentiality, as well as that we will take your report seriously and react quickly.
