Scala & Functional Programming Blog

Thoughts, tutorials, and best practices from our team of Scala experts.

Alyssa Ehinger 9/11/26 Alyssa Ehinger 9/11/26

How Scala's Type System Stops AI Code Vulnerabilities

Alyssa Ehinger 8/31/26 Alyssa Ehinger 8/31/26

sbt 2.0's Role in Scala's Ecosystem Maturity

Alyssa Ehinger 8/24/26 Alyssa Ehinger 8/24/26

What Scala Catches in ML Pipelines that PySpark Won't

Alyssa Ehinger 8/21/26 Alyssa Ehinger 8/21/26

Why Scala Actors Handle AI Agent Concurrency Better

Tony Moores 8/19/26 Tony Moores 8/19/26

Learning Scala: Great Algorithms are DRY

Alyssa Ehinger 8/18/26 Alyssa Ehinger 8/18/26

Comparing Hadoop vs Spark in 2026

Alyssa Ehinger 8/14/26 Alyssa Ehinger 8/14/26

How to Hire an Outsourced Scala Team for Faster Dev

Tony Moores 8/12/26 Tony Moores 8/12/26

Learning Scala: Effect Correctness Is a Modeling Problem

Alyssa Ehinger 8/10/26 Alyssa Ehinger 8/10/26

How to Scale a Dev Team Without Breaking Your Codebase

Alyssa Ehinger 8/5/26 Alyssa Ehinger 8/5/26

How to Migrate to Scala 3 Without Disrupting Production

Alyssa Ehinger 8/4/26 Alyssa Ehinger 8/4/26

Ox vs Kyo: Scala's Concurrency Crossroads

Alyssa Ehinger 7/31/26 Alyssa Ehinger 7/31/26

Scala Framework Choices for Engineering Teams in 2026

Tony Moores 7/30/26 Tony Moores 7/30/26

Learning Scala: Why Commerce Is Verbs, Not Nouns

Tony Moores 7/22/26 Tony Moores 7/22/26

Learning Scala: Configuration Is Code with No Deploy Gate

Alyssa Ehinger 7/20/26 Alyssa Ehinger 7/20/26

How to Evaluate Scala Developers for Machine Learning

Tony Moores 7/15/26 Tony Moores 7/15/26

Learning Scala: Naming the Business Rule Your Tests Miss

Alyssa Ehinger 7/13/26 Alyssa Ehinger 7/13/26

Scala vs Kotlin for Engineering Leaders

Tony Moores 7/8/26 Tony Moores 7/8/26

Learning Scala: Time Is an Argument, Not a Side Effect

Alyssa Ehinger 7/6/26 Alyssa Ehinger 7/6/26

When Scala Is the Wrong Choice

Tony Moores 7/1/26 Tony Moores 7/1/26

Learning Scala: Idempotent Operations in Distributed Systems