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I think the pertinent part of the comment you're replying to was graalvm, not so much Scala. I was compiling a small Scala codebase that took 15 minutes to compile - most of that w…

With Akka Serverless, the mental model is that you are deploying entities, not code. Depending on the state model you select for a particular entity, Akka Serverless will shard or …

Number 3 - thinking in events instead of REST actions, can't be stressed enough. Of course, some things must be actions (or another for that is commands), and in those situations, …

I don't think Netflix puts their content on CDNs. A prerequisite for Netflix entering a country is whether AWS has a datacenter in that country (or for smaller countries, near that…

My company hires engineers wherever they are. We're only incorporated in a few countries, the way we work is to engage a firm whose business it is to be incorporated in many countr…

Since when does bending light require distorting the fabric of spacetime? All you need is two transparent materials of different densities, they don't have to be heavy, and you wil…

I like Play too.

If in doubt, order everything on the menu.

> and therefore no one (meaning the author) does X Quite the contrary. I (the author) have done a lot of asynchronous Java development using promises and other asynchronous constru…

Semantics aside, there is really no difference between performance in Scala and Java, equivalent code in both compiles to near identical byte code, save for a few niche optimisatio…

In some cases, client code could be written so that new actions can be discovered and utilised without any changes to the client code. There have been many cases when I've written …

I completely agree. I have noticed, programmers who can't touch type write very few comments and very little documentation. Communicating with them via email sucks because they can…