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HolidayCheck’s journey with Scala and Akka
Typesafe aids CCAD in managing cable operations
Scala tutorial code runnable in browser
Scala part of InfoWorld's 2014 Technology of the Year Award
12 free ebooks on scala
Top 5 Free Scala Books for Java Programmers
Happy 10 year anniversary for scala 
 
HolidayCheck’s journey with Scala and Akka
HolidayCheck is the largest German speaking online travel site/agency, having been online now for more than ten years. In their peak-booking season they have over one hundred million page impressions per week. 
They started with a typical LAMP stack which worked well for the initial site as it was meeting usual business goals and classical web business. But later problems arose. The biggest problems being related to platform/code complexity, stability and performance. 
They felt that both the Scala and Akka held a great deal of promise for his project and began to investigate them more closely. There was no dedicated evaluation to use Scala or not, it simply was clear that Scala added significant value (because of Functional Programming, the collection API, Traits) so they used it. They wanted to use Actors for parallel processing, so Akka was a natural choice.
Typesafe aids CCAD in managing cable operations
CCAD is an organization that helps cable companies worldwide deliver audio/video content to subscribers. It focuses on the development of current and future conditional access (CA) technologies and supporting control system infrastructure, which is deployed among major operators 
worldwide.
Initially they were using the traditional java based stack but later they faced the problem for Ensuring that subscribers should have access to only the audio/video content they have purchased or subscribed to. Then they moved away from java to Scala. 
Scaling developer productivity, improving code quality and removing locking and contention were reasons that influenced them. Scala makes development noticeably faster and makes them feel more confident that the end result will be correct. The quality level of what they produce with Scala, Akka, and functional programming techniques is so high. Their product marketing team and their product owner have made numerous comments about the technology stack’s contribution towards both this quality level and reduced qualification and regression testing.
Scala tutorial code runnable in browser
As we know that scala is growing steadily in industry therefore we are getting new ways of learning scala resources. Now we have new format of scala tutorial in which we can learn by running the code in browser. This is very interesting way of learning. We do not need to install any thing on our system. Go and play!
Scala part of InfoWorld's 2014 Technology of the Year Award
Every January, InfoWorld's reviewers pick the best products they encountered in the past year -- the best hardware, software, development tools, and cloud services. This time, Scala is also the part of InfoWorld's list of best products.
12 free ebooks on scala
With Big Data technologies growing like never before, Scala is sure to get you some big bucks in the upcoming IT Job market. So pull your socks and refine your Scala programming skills with these free ebooks.
Top 5 Free Scala Books for Java Programmers
Scala is another JVM based programming language, which is quickly gaining popularity because of its interesting mix of object oriented and functional programming paradigm. Many companies has started using Scala for there strategic and mission critical development. One of the best known is Twitter, which is also one of the key factor in growing popularity of Scala programming language. If you are a Java, C++ or C# programmer, who is willing to learn Scala in your spare time, then you will be surprised to see how much helpful content is available for FREE on internet.
Happy 10 year anniversary for scala 
On January 20, 2004, we got availability of the first implementation of Scala programming language. From then, Scala has gained more popularity because of its fusion of object oriented and functional paradigm.
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