168: An Escape Rope of Learning - a podcast by thoughtbot

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

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