On October 1, the first conference of Scala-developers took place in St. Petersburg.
Guests from different parts of Russia (and not only), who visited the cozy Ingria business incubator that evening, had the opportunity to listen to interesting reports and talk with colleagues in the workshop.
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Under the cut you are waiting for video reports from the conference:
"Using Scala for backend tasks" Edward Klementyev
"Scala in Goozy" Alexey Zlobin
"Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA" Pavel Fatin and Alexander Podkhalyuzin
"Squeryl - ORM with a human face" Yuri Buyanov
Shortly before the event, we were contacted from the EPFL and politely asked not to use the name ScalaDay, which we chose initially, so that there would be no confusion with existing events. Therefore, from now on we will be called ScalaSPB .
The first speaker was Eduard Klementyev from GGA Software Services with the report “How to use Scala for backend tasks”.
In his report, Edward told how his company came to use Scala and what did not suit Java. What technologies are used in projects and how is work with Json and MongoDB.
Next to Edward was our employee Alexei Zlobin with the report “Scala in Goozy”.
“ The plan of my report is this: first I will talk about the project itself, then about what exactly Scala does in it.Then there are a few technical sketches about technologies and some characteristic methods that we tried to use and what they led to . ”
Already answering questions after the report there was a force majeure - the projector lamp burned out. It’s good that there was a small board next to it on which presentations could be shown, but the quality of the picture on the video was noticeably hurt by this. We apologize.
After a short coffee break and several attempts to resurrect the projector to the barrier, two representatives from jetBrains came out - Pavel Fatin and Alexander Podkhalyuzin. The guys talked about the Scala plugin for intelliJ IDEA.
The last was one of our developers and, in combination, the lead and the organizer, Yuri Buyanov, with the report “Squeryl - ORM with a human face”.
Yuri spoke about the basics of the lightweight ORM library called SQueryl .
Total
Despite some technical problems in the process (hello to the burned-out projector lamp), one cannot say that the first pancake was a lump. We have received many positive reviews and thanks for the broadcast.
It can be seen that developers interested in Scala have a great need for such an event. We will try to take into account all the shortcomings and next time we will try to expand the format both quantitatively and qualitatively.
We received a lot of positive feedback, despite some technical problems in the process. We can say with confidence that this was not the last meeting, and next time we will try to expand the format both quantitatively and qualitatively.