The concept of Free Monad is becoming popular, or at least I’ve seen plenty of mentions about it in the Scala Functional Programming community as of late. Why is it relevant?

Have you heard about AWS Lambda? Do you like Monkey Island? Are you into Insult Sword Fighting? Then, come along, this may interest you ;)

Scala Exchange 2015 is on! I will be updating this entry with summaries on the talks I attended. Typos a plenty, be warned, but I hope this proves useful to somebody while we wait for the videos to be made available. You can also read my summary of day one.

Scala Exchange 2015 is on! I will be updating this entry with summaries on the talks I attended. Typos a plenty, be warned, but I hope this proves useful to somebody while we wait for the videos to be made available. You can also read my summary of day two.

After hearing a lot about the benefits of using Emacs to code in Scala, I’ve decided to give it a go and also to document the steps to work with it, in case anyone else feels crazy enough to try this.

One of the things people love about Scala is the REPL. I have to be honest; I never paid too much attention to it as IntelliJ provides a handy Scala Worksheet. But it is time to fix this..

Heroku has announced beta support for Docker containers running in its platform. As I have some time in my hands, I’ve tried how well it integrates.

After a weekend wasted in bed (food poisoning sucks) I’ve spent some hours catching up with tech news. And I’ve found a very interesting, if brief, comment about a new war between Apple and Google that may impact their success in wearables.

Yesterday I was at QCon London thanks to Gumtree.

And Real-Time Analytics with Apache Storm it’s over. Kinda. But it has been a fun road to travel.