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

Alyssa Ehinger 10/14/26 Alyssa Ehinger 10/14/26

What Scala's Type System Can and Can't Stop an AI Agent From Doing

Alyssa Ehinger 10/9/26 Alyssa Ehinger 10/9/26

Hard to Hire, Hard to Learn, Hard to Break: A CTO’s Scala Case at Scala Days 2026

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

Scala 3 Capture Checking, Explained Without the Type Theory

Alyssa Ehinger 10/7/26 Alyssa Ehinger 10/7/26

When AI Writes Good Scala Code, and When It Doesn't

Alyssa Ehinger 10/6/26 Alyssa Ehinger 10/6/26

Refinement Types in Scala 3: What You Can Use Today

Alyssa Ehinger 9/24/26 Alyssa Ehinger 9/24/26

In-House vs Outsourced Scala Developers: Own the Core, Scale the Rest

Alyssa Ehinger 9/21/26 Alyssa Ehinger 9/21/26

What Hiring Scala Developers Looks Like in 2026

Alyssa Ehinger 9/16/26 Alyssa Ehinger 9/16/26

Scala Best Practices: What to Check When You Can't Read the Code

Alyssa Ehinger 9/15/26 Alyssa Ehinger 9/15/26

AI Agent Security in Financial Services: A Fintech Case

Alyssa Ehinger 9/14/26 Alyssa Ehinger 9/14/26

Why Editor Lag Hurts Scala Developer Productivity

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