168: An Escape Rope of Learning

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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