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Learn Scala Programming

By : Slava Schmidt
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Learn Scala Programming

By: Slava Schmidt

Overview of this book

The second version of Scala has undergone multiple changes to support features and library implementations. Scala 2.13, with its main focus on modularizing the standard library and simplifying collections, brings with it a host of updates. Learn Scala Programming addresses both technical and architectural changes to the redesigned standard library and collections, along with covering in-depth type systems and first-level support for functions. You will discover how to leverage implicits as a primary mechanism for building type classes and look at different ways to test Scala code. You will also learn about abstract building blocks used in functional programming, giving you sufficient understanding to pick and use any existing functional programming library out there. In the concluding chapters, you will explore reactive programming by covering the Akka framework and reactive streams. By the end of this book, you will have built microservices and learned to implement them with the Scala and Lagom framework.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Building a microservice with http4s and doobie

Let's take a look at how a microservice with a RESTful interface will look if implemented with open source libraries based on the principles we've learned in first two sections of the book.

We will start with the discussion of the building blocks that constitute the application and how they connect together. Speaking of blocks, we'll need to briefly talk about the FS2 library, which is a foundation of other libraries we will use and thus shapes the ways we join them together. After that, we'll go over database migrations, project configurations, the implementation of the database logic, and the service layer. Naturally we conclude our discourse with the implementation of integration testing for the service we've built.

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