(by @andrestaltz)
If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.
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staltz
/ introrx.md
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October 26, 2025 03:06
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
runarorama
/ gist:a8fab38e473fafa0921d
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Compositional application architecture with reasonably priced monads
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| sealed trait Interact[A] | |
| case class Ask(prompt: String) | |
| extends Interact[String] | |
| case class Tell(msg: String) | |
| extends Interact[Unit] | |
| trait Monad[M[_]] { | |
| def pure[A](a: A): M[A] |
jessitron
/ stayingDead.scala
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March 19, 2014 15:23
Akka testing: it's a good idea to tell your actor system to leave a dead top-level actor dead. See: http://blog.jessitron.com/2014/03/testing-in-akka-sneaky-automatic.html
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| // In real life, it's great that stuff gets restarted when it fails. | |
| // In testing, we'd rather know that it failed. | |
| import akka.actor._ | |
| class DyingActor extends Actor { | |
| def receive = { case "die" => throw new Exception("poo") } | |
| } | |
| // Default config, everything restarts automatically | |
| val system = ActorSystem("ordinary") |
johnynek
/ sized_list.scala
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July 3, 2021 17:54
Simple example of how to write a linked-list in scala that knows its length at compile-time. This allows you to write a zip method that is always exact.
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| // I was reading through these examples: http://apocalisp.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/type-level-programming-in-scala/ | |
| // and I thought it would be nice to more quickly get to something useful, to show the power of the techniques. | |
| object SizedListExample { | |
| // Type of all Non-negative integers | |
| sealed trait Nat | |
| // This is zero. | |
| sealed trait _0 extends Nat | |
| // Successor to some non-negative number | |
| sealed trait Succ[N <: Nat] extends Nat |
tpolecat
/ gist:8812750
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This gist has been upgraded to a blog post here.
Find it here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
macintux
/ Distributed systems meta-list.md
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List of distributed systems reading lists, plus miscellanea
- https://dancres.github.io/Pages/
- https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html
- http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/distributed-systems-theory-for-the-distributed-systems-engineer/
- https://github.com/palvaro/CMPS290S-Winter16/blob/master/readings.md
- http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-distributed-systems-seminars-reading.html
- http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07/12/readings-in-distributed-systems.html
- http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/11/06/distributed-systems-archaeology-works-cited.html
- http://rxin.github.io/db-readings/
- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html
- http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/dsrg/papers/
travisbrown
/ nat-example.scala
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January 7, 2013 12:26
Creating a Nat type from a compile-time literal
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| import scala.language.experimental.macros | |
| import scala.reflect.macros.Context | |
| import shapeless._ | |
| object NatExample { | |
| def toNat(n: Int): Any = macro toNat_impl | |
| def toNat_impl(c: Context)(n: c.Expr[Int]) = { | |
| import c.universe._ |
Belgand
/ gist:2856947
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June 2, 2012 06:18
— forked from hileon/gist:1311735
Sublime Text 2 - Useful Shortcuts
stonegao
/ AkkaKafkaMailboxTest.scala
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May 1, 2012 07:24
— forked from mardambey/AkkaKafkaMailboxTest.scala
Akka 2.0 actors with Kafka backed durable mailboxes.
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| import akka.actor.Actor | |
| import akka.actor.ActorSystem | |
| import akka.agent.Agent | |
| import com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory | |
| import akka.event.Logging | |
| import akka.actor.Props | |
| import kafka.utils.Utils | |
| import java.nio.ByteBuffer |