The Bike Shed

Chris is joined by Rachel Mathew to discuss Rachel's recent experiences with Scala on a handful of client and side projects. They discuss the benefits of working within a type system, learning to work with a compiler, and the process of getting to know a new language and paradigm. Along they way they dip into the complexity of twitter as a platform for discussion and making improvements to development workflows. Scala Scala implicits Kotlin Four stages of competence Scala Play - Full-featured Scala web framework, comparable to Rails http4s - Lower level Scala web framework SOAP - An approach to building APIs popular before the focus on REST APIs WSDL - Schemas in the land of SOAP Sangria - Scala GraphQL library neo4j - An example of a graph database Are Services the New Rewrite? - recent Bike Shed episode discussion microservice architecture 283: Overcoming Awkward Data (Joe Ferris) - Recent Giant Robots episode with Joe Ferris discussing "awkward data" GraphQL Code Generation Purple Train App