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2024

Scalar
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— 2024

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Scala language at Scalar!

It's more than just a conference: it's a great experience you should definitely be part of!
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Get ready for two exciting days of learning about functional programming with a fantastic community. Meet experienced IT experts, make friends with people who share your interests, and discover valuable insights. All Scalarians will tell you that making connections at Scalar is one of the best parts.

Join us, share ideas, make friends, and learn ALL things Scala and functional programming. Fun times? Absolutely guaranteed!

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Scalar

March 21 - 22, 2024

Agenda

6:00 pm

Scalar Pre-Party by ScalaWAW

Let's meet before Scalar!

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8:00 am

Mirrors for operations, not data

I propose that we can extend Mirrors to operations, and use the most natural DSL of all - plain trait definitions.

10:00 am

Scala tooling ecosystem

I would like to go over the most relevant tools and changes that can improve your developer experience.

10:30 am

Faster and less mysterious sbt builds with Develocity

10:40 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am

Direct Style Scala Stack - an experiment

11:30 am

Custom Compile-Time Errors With a Vengeance

In this talk, we will take a tour around the `error` function. Starting from the simple use-cases and ending up with sophisticated yet developer-friendly error messages.

12:00 pm

Hands-on Besom: Infrastructure-as-Code with Scala

In my talk I will guide you through a deployment of a complete AI-based web service using Besom, Scala SDK for Pulumi.

12:30 pm

Lunch Break

1:30 pm

My First Year in Scala

In this talk, I will cover three key concepts that emerged from reflecting on this past year of learning: making mistakes, helping others to help you and finding community.

2:00 pm

How slow is your tram?

In this beginner-friendly talk we'll try to find out using the power of Scala and functional programming techniques.

2:30 pm

Anti-corruption layers through functional type safety

This presentation describes the development of a financial middleware that internationally connects several ERP systems (Navision and SAP) to a cloud-based invoicing solution.

3:00 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm

Diamond Architecture: lessons learned

The talk explores the recursive structure of Diamond Architecture.

4:00 pm

Minimize your Python Discomfort: A tour of NLP with Spacy, ScalaPy, and Scala 3

In this talk, I will show how you can use ScalaPy to leverage an excellent NLP library like Spacy, minimizing your discomfort of using Python, and enhancing your comfort with Scala 3 for the remaining parts of your application.

4:30 pm

Coffee Break

5:00 pm

Exploring Build Caching: A Practical Overview

In this talk, we will start with the basics, understanding what build caching is and why it can be a bit tricky to handle in real projects.

5:30 pm

Generative Art with Scala, No AI Required

In this talk, we will demonstrate some elegant applications of functional programming in Scala, with even more elegant visual results - all with live code and real-time output.

8:00 pm

Scalar Afterparty!

Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with Scalar community and create lasting memories

8:30 am

Registration

9:00 am

Contravariance: intuition building and examples

This talk aims to equip the audience with the minimum required bagage to get comfortable working with contravariance.

9:30 am

Do I Miss Writing Scala?

Join me for a fun and possibly opinionated talk about the state of Scala and other JVM languages.

10:00 am

The debatably Free monad

This talk is my slightly expanded version of that statement, and should hopefully understand what "Free" is, what purpose it serves and where it came from.

10:30 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am

Surprise talk

11:30 am

Implementing multithreading in Scala Native or a story of 201 little pains

Listen to a story of how we have dealt with 201 obstacles allowing us to run multithreaded programs natively!

12:00 pm

Looking beyond the scope: Scala application from an external lens

Join me in a talk empowering you to build Scala applications that not only excel internally but also deliver optimal experiences from an external perspective.

12:30 pm

Lunch Break

1:30 pm

Structured Concurrency in Direct Style with Gears

2:00 pm

Turbocharging web socket integration for Tapir

We managed to alleviate almost entirely the slowdown induced by Tapir in a web socket server. The journey towards this goal was quite insightful, and we would like to share it with you.

2:30 pm

Armored Type Safety with Iron

In this talk, we’ll show first the different techniques we can use to apply constraints is our domains. Then, we’ll present Iron, its features, extensions, and integrations. We’ll finish by showcasing a fully integrated constraint-enforcing app.

3:00 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm

Sounds of Scala.js

Drawing on 25 years of experience as a professional musician and record producer, this will be a beginner focused talk introducing the use of Scala.js and the web audio api for building Scala powered Web Audio Applications.