Mikaël Valot - Scala programming projects build real world projects using popular Scala frameworks like Play, Akka, and Spark

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Mikal Valot is Principal Software Engineer at IHS Markit in London, UK. He is the lead developer of a strategic market risk solution for banking regulation.

He has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry of the UK, Switzerland, and France. He has a Diplme d'Ingnieur in Computing (equivalent to an M.Sc.) from Telecom Nancy, France.

After years of working with Java, he started developing professionally with Scala in 2010, and never looked back. He was a speaker at Scala Exchange 2015.

When he is not coding in Scala, Mikal likes to dabble with Haskell, the Robotic Operating System, and deep learning.

He strongly believes that functional programming with strong typing skills is the best way to write safe and scalable programs.

Nicolas Jorand is a senior developer. He worked for the finance industry for about 15 years before switching to the energy industry. He is a freelancer enjoying a partial time at Romande Energy, a Swiss utility company providing exclusively green electricity. Nicolas is a full-stack developer, playing with microcontrollers, developing standard web user and 3D interfaces on Unity, developing software to animate a humanoid robot (Nao) and finally, working with Scala on integration and backend software. All these projects are done with the same leitmotif; "In the dev process, get the issues as early as possible."

Vlad Patryshev is currently working as a Lead Data Engineer at Salesforce; he is also a professor of Logic at Santa Clara University.

He is an organizer of two meetups, Bay Area Categories and Types, and Scala Bay, the latter dedicated to Scala language.

Vlad's education is in math, but he spent most of his life working in software. 7 years at Borland, 3.5 years at Google.

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Scala is a type-safe JVM language that incorporates object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP) aspects. This book gets you started with the essentials of software development by guiding you through the different aspects of Scala programming, helping you bridge the gap between learning and implementing. You will learn about the unique features of Scala through diverse applications and encounter simple yet powerful approaches for software development. You will see how to use the basic tools, set up the environment, and write Scala programs.

Scala Programming Projects will help you build a number of applications, beginning with a simple project, such as a financial independence calculator, and advancing to other projects, such as a shopping application or a Bitcoin transaction analyzer. You will be able to use various Scala features, such as its OOP and FP capabilities, and learn ways to write concise, reactive, and concurrent applications in a type-safe manner. You will also learn how to use top-notch libraries, such as Akka and Play, and integrate Scala applications with Kafka, Spark, and Zeppelin; plus, you'll explore deploying applications on cloud platforms.