What we’re about
Scala Toronto (scalator) is a great place to learn about the Scala language, libraries, JVM, Akka, and Data Engineering topics. We also promote about related progressive technologies and ideas! All skill levels are welcome.
Scala is one of the most popular languages to write data streaming platforms in. Implementing data platforms borrows a lot of concepts from Hadoop and the Big Data 1.0 space, but more often we see responsibilities blur with modern application development. For example, microservices can be thought of as long lived streaming services that consume and produce an unbounded set of data. A convergence of best practices and principles from the Big Data and Reactive Microservice world are enabling us to build high throughput, low latency, stateful, and ML-driven systems.
Join us to learn more about using Scala for the development of modern applications and data platforms.
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Regards,
Anthony Cros @anthony_cros / Calvin Fernandes @cal_fern
Upcoming events (1)
See all- ScalaTor+TJUG: Haoyi Li presents "Simpler Java build tools with OOP/Mill"Free Times Cafe, Toronto, ON
This is a joint event hosted by the Toronto Java User Group!
Join us for a cross-community meetup featuring Haoyi Li on Simpler Java build tools with Object Oriented Programming. We'll kick off with brief introductions from each group before diving into the main talk.
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The Java language is known to be performant, easy to use, and with great IDE support, but Java build tools like Maven or Gradle do not always live up to that reputation. This talk will explore why build tooling is fundamentally such a difficult domain to work in, and how common concepts from object-oriented programming have the potential to simplify the build tool experience. We will end with a demonstration of an experimental new Java build tool "Mill" that makes use of these ideas, proving out the idea that Java build tooling has the potential to be much faster, safer, and easier than it is today.
