In our previous blog, The Magic of Implicit, we have talked about how implicit values are being used. In this blog, we will explore Type Conversion with implicit and implicit classes. Let's start with a simple example, Here we were trying…
Back2Basics: Demystifying Variance
In this blog, we will explore types of variances in Scala. In-variance Co-variance Contra-variance First, let's talk about Types in Scala. In the above example, ref1 is of type Any and ref2 is of type String. Scala Compiler has no…
Back2Basics: The Magic of Implicits
Implicit System is one of Scala's language greatest feature with the help of which we can write concise code. The implicit system in Scala allows the compiler to adjust code using a well-defined lookup mechanism. In this post, we will try…
Back2Basics: Type Erasure in Scala
Scala has a really strong type system. Scala’s static type system is listed as one of its strong points. But even though Scala’s type system is theoretically very strong, in practice some type-related features are weakened by the restrictions and…
Git Cheat Sheet: Basics
In this blog, I have listed some of the basic commands like installing and configuring the Git. How Git works is not the focus of this post. I have piled up some commands for performing basic operations in git. 1)…
Unveiling The Mystery Of Serverless
In this blog, we will explore about Serverless and why it is trending so much? Serverless, is itself a self-explanatory word, means there are no servers. But, is it really true? No, it is not. Serverless does not mean the…
Exploring JEST: Java HTTP REST Client
Elasticsearch is a real-time distributed and open source full-text search and analytics engine. To integrate Elasticsearch to our application, we need to use an API. Elasticsearch gives us two ways, REST APIs, and Native clients. It's easy to get confused…
Introduction to GraphQL – A Query Language for APIs
GraphQL is an API standard that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to REST. It was created by Facebook in 2012 and was open-sourced in 2015 and is now maintained by a large community of companies and individuals from…
Scala Best Practices
The central drive behind Scala is to make life easier and more productive for the developer -- and that includes me. Scala does this with three principal techniques: It cuts down on boilerplate, so programmers can concentrate on the logic…
Scala Best Practices : Pure Functions
We grew up in a world of imperative programming that’s why we are more addictive to writing code in imperative style. Everything is mutable around us. Mutability is not that bad. But shared mutability is devil’s work. The moment we…
