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2n d Ed ■■ Program faster with Scala’s succinct and flexible syntax Alex Payne is Platform Lead at Twitter, where he develops services that enable programmers to build atop the popular social messaging service. Alex has previously built web applications for political campaigns, nonprofits, and early-stage startups. ■■ Dive into basic and advanced functional programming (FP) techniques ■■ Build killer big-data apps, using Scala’s functional combinators ■■ Use traits for mixin composition and pattern matching for data extraction ■■ Learn the sophisticated type system that combines FP and object-oriented programming concepts ■■ Explore Scala-specific concurrency tools, including Akka ■■ Understand how to develop rich domain-specific languages ■■ Learn good design techniques for building scalable and robust Scala applications US $49.99 Twitter: @oreillymedia facebook.com/oreilly Programming Scala SCALABILITY = FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING + OBJECTS Wampler & Payne The example code for this unique data science book is maintained in a public GitHub repository. It’s designed to be easily accessible through a turnkey virtual machine that facilitates interactive learning with an easy-to-use collection of IPython Notebooks. SC AL A /JAVA /PROGR AMMING L ANGUAGES on This second edition covers recent language features, with new chapters on pattern matching, comprehensions, and advanced functional programming. You’ll also learn about Scala’s command-line tools, thirdparty tools, libraries, and language-aware plugins for editors and IDEs. This book is ideal for beginning and advanced Scala developers alike. SECOND EDITION Dean Wampler, Ph.D. is the Big Data Architect for Typesafe, where he builds data-centric tools and services, using Scala, functional programming, Spark, Hadoop, and Akka. Dean is the author of Functional Programming for Java Developers and co-author of Programming Hive. Programming Scala Get up to speed on Scala, the JVM language that offers all the

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