This week in #Scala (Sep 27, 2021)

Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!

This blog aims to keep you up to date with the latest news from the world of Scala and Reactive programming.

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New Content

• Scala project from scratch #2 — http4s, tapir, long fixes for simple issues
• Custom Pattern Matching in Scala
• Scala3 typeclassery with graphs
• Fast C-style for loops in Scala 3
• Reflecting on Four Years at Databricks
• SBT Tutorial — Part 1
• What is Apache Kafka, and what are Kafka use cases?
• Event Streaming with Apache Pulsar and Scala
• Monitoring Akka applications with Mesmer and OpenTelemetry
• notes for the “Programming Concurrency on the JVM” book
• Using BSP effectively in IntelliJ and Scala

Releases

• sbt 1.6.0-M1 released
• ZIO 2.0 M3 is now available
• sbt-ci-release has now moved to the sbt GitHub organization and there is a new v1.5.9 release on Maven Central
• Starlark 4.2.1 is available
• scalaxb 1.8.2 released
• Scalatra 2.8.1 released
• New is out scala-restructure
• New FS2 release is out with some nice performance optimizations
• better-tostring 0.3.8 has been released

Books

• Get Programming with Scala by Daniela Sfregola (35% off)
• Play for Scala (35% off)
• Functional Programming for Mortals (pay as much as you want)
• Essential Effects by Adam Rosien (20% off)
• Programming in Scala, Fifth Edition
• Zionomicon (code is thisweekinscala)

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