Scala

Use custom value classes for greater abstraction and type safety

Scala is one of our languages of choice. On our journey to Scala mastery, we continually pick up new tricks, which we soon put to use, if we find that they contribute to the quality of our codebase. This post is about one such trick: custom value classes.

Scala

Workaround for configuration parsing issue in Dropwizard 0.9 with Scala

If you are using Dropwizard 0.9 in Scala, you might have encountered this error when starting your application.

Scala

How to write clean functional code in Scala and keep it that way

Most of the development we do at Poppulo has been heavily Java-based so far. In the last year, we started working on Spark applications and hence jumped into Scala. This is a brief summary of some guidelines we wish we had when we started.