TL;DR: Quicklens: modify deeply nested fields in case classes, e.g.: modify(person)(_.address.street.name).using(_.toUpperCase). Similar to lenses, but without the actual lens creation. Lenses are very useful when you have to update a … Continue Reading →
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In today’s post-OO world, is dependency injection still relevant?
It’s 2015. Most of the new popular languages are more or less functional. The old ones, like Java, gain functional programming elements. In Scala, people are increasingly leaning towards the … Continue Reading →
Supler 0.2.0: docs and features added, bugs removed
Supler is a library which makes writing complex forms easier. It has a server-side (Scala) and a client-side (JavaScript) component. In December we announced the 0.1.0 release, so it’s about … Continue Reading →
MacWire 0.8.0: towards 1.0, tagging, anonymous functions support
A couple of days ago MacWire 0.8.0 got released. It contains a couple of changes and new features. But first, I’d like to thank Marcin Kubala for his contributions. All … Continue Reading →
Supler 0.1.0: complex forms made easier
Supler aims to make complex web forms development easier, without tying you to a web framework. Supler provides a server-side DSL for defining forms, generating a JSON form representation, applying … Continue Reading →
Clustering reactmq with akka-cluster
In the last two posts on reactmq, I described how to write a reactive, persistent message queue. The queue has the following characteristics: there is a single broker storing the … Continue Reading →
Introducing Supler: a Functional Reactive Form Library
Let’s face it. Creating websites with complex forms is a pain. Writing the HTML in the frontend, the supporting javascript, defining mappings in the backed, server-side validation, and – let’s … Continue Reading →
MacWire 0.7: dynamically accessing the object graph
MacWire is a Lightweight and Nonintrusive Scala Dependency Injection library. While it would be great to be able to define in a type-safe way the whole object graph for an … Continue Reading →
Making the Reactive Queue durable with Akka Persistence
Some time ago I wrote how to implement a reactive message queue with Akka Streams. The queue supports streaming send and receive operations with back-pressure, but has one downside: all … Continue Reading →
Evaluating persistent, replicated message queues (updated w/ Kafka)
An updated and extended version of this post is available on SoftwareMill’s website. Below you can find the original content containing benchmarks from 2014. Update 17/07/2014: added Kafka benchmarks Update … Continue Reading →