If you already have programming experience with Scala and want to understand its advanced features, this two-day course is for you. It is designed to help developers fully understand topics such as advanced object-functional programming, the power of Scala's type system, implicits, etc. The course also covers how to leverage these features to create well-designed libraries or DSL’s utilizing proven best practices.

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of Scala as covered in the "Fast Track to Scala" course with at least two months practical experience in developing with Scala. Students should bring their own laptop with Java 6 or higher installed.

After having participated in this course you should

• understand all aspects of the object-functional approach
• know and be able to apply advanced features of Scala's type system
• fully understand implicits and type classes
• be confident to create libraries and DSLs with Scala

Program

• Short recap of important basics
• Object-functional programming in depth
• Mastering the type system
• Explicitly implicit
• Internal DSLs
• Custom Scala collections

This two-day course introduces experienced application developers to the reactive Akka toolkit and runtime and the methodologies that enable the creation of real-world actor-based systems in Scala on a single JVM. This course has extensive hands-on work and successive exercises build upon prior lessons learned to produce a fully functional application that is both event-driven and resilient by the conclusion of the course.

Prerequisites: Code examples and exercises will be written in Scala, so a basic knowledge of Scala as covered in the "Fast Track to Scala" course is required. Students should bring their own laptop with Java 6 or higher installed.

After having participated in this course you should

• know how to design scalable and fault-tolerant applications using Akka's actors
• know how to configure, test and tune Akka applications
• know best practices for designing asynchronous, event-driven systems using Akka
• be confident to start using Akka in production systems

Program

• Intro
• Actor basics
• Testing actors
• Actor lifecycle
• Fault tolerance
• Scaling up with routers

This is a two-day advanced course on building distributed reactive applications using Akka and Scala. It is intended for developers who already have a strong understanding of the fundamentals of building applications using Akka and Scala on a single JVM and are looking to learn how to scale out to multiple nodes and 3rd party systems. This course has extensive hands-on work and successive exercises build upon prior lessons learned to produce a fully functional application that is both event-driven and resilient by the conclusion of the course.

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of Akka as covered in the "Scaling up with Akka and Scala" course as well as a basic knowledge of Scala as covered in the "Fast Track to Scala" course with at least two months practical experience in developing with Akka and Scala. Students should bring their own laptop with Java 6 or higher installed.

After having participated in this course you should

• know how to use Akka's remoting and clustering features
• understand how to integrate 3rd party systems
• know how to create a RESTful HTTP layer
• be confident to start using Akka on large scale

Program

• Akka basics reloaded
• Remoting
• Clustering
• Integrating 3rd party systems
• Exposing a RESTful HTTP interface

This two-day course introduces experienced web-developers to the design-patterns and methodology essential to building reactive, scalable web applications with Play Framework and Scala. An introduction to Slick, a type-safe and modern database query and access library for Scala is also part of agenda. In this course, successive exercises build upon prior lessons learned to produce a fully functional application by the conclusion of the course.

Prerequisites: Code examples and exercises will be written in Scala, so a basic knowledge of Scala as covered in the "Fast Track to Scala" course is required, as is experience with HTML and JavaScript. Students should bring their own laptop with Java 6 or higher installed.

After having participated in this course you should

• know how to build fully fledged web applications using Play
• know best practices for developing web applications using Play
• be confident to start using Scala and Play applications in production

Program

• Introduction
• Forms
• Testing
• Managing Assets
• HTTP Programming
• Asynchronous programming in Play
• Interacting with Web Services
• Working with JSON
• Ajax
• Slick