#14 [ENG] Running Scala on AWS & Scala in 2025

14th iteration of Wrocław Scala User Group is coming back in a week and will happen as usual in Wędrówki Pub. Our speakers will be coming to the Scalar conference at the end of the month, but you can hear them live without having to go all the way to Warsaw!

First talk will focus on showing a developer friendly way of deploying to AWS Lambda, while the second one show you have to get started with Scala and how to improve introducing newcomers to the language.

We previously, scheduled Krzysztof Romanowski's talk, but he will not be able to attend due to health issues.

Check out the details. ⬇️

🎙️ ‘Scala in 2025: How to Start, What to Learn‘ - Michał Pawlik

Join me for a beginner-friendly talk, where I'll introduce Scala and guide you through the essentials! I'll provide a brief overview of IDEs and build tools, and walk you through various coding styles like direct style concurrency and functional programming. Whether you're just starting out or looking to experiment with new approaches, this session will offer valuable insights and help you on your Scala journey.

🎙️‘Running Scala on AWS Lambda as a native-image‘ - Artur Opala, Michał Porażko

Case study and a summary of over a year of experience building AWS lambdas using Scala 3, Scala CLI, and GraalVM. Presentation will show an open-sourced library providing custom lambda runtime developed for that purpose.

**[CANCELLED]**🎙️‘Developer Tooling: The Universal Foundation of Productivity‘ - Krzysztof Romanowski

Unfortunately, Krzysztof will not be able to attend due to health issues.

Speakers:

🎙️Artur Opala - Pragmatic Software Engineer, passionate about state-of-the-art functional and reactive programming

🎙️Michał Porażko - Enthusiastic self-taught programmer with a strong interest in Scala development.

🎙️ Michał Pawlik - software engineer, writing (not exclusively) about Scala at https://blog.michal.pawlik.dev, OSS contributor, eager to help others onboard to FP world