Programming in Scala, Fourth Edition (1116)

Writing truly concurrent software on the Java Virtual Machine just got a whole lot easier. The Akka Toolkit takes the sting out of coding for multiple cores, multiple processors, and even multiple machines. Akka Concurrency will show you what it means to design and write software in the paradigm of Akka. You'll learn how to think about your software in new and exciting ways that will allow you to express your designs naturally, allowing you to focus on the business of your software more than on the concurrency of it. This book picks up where the Akka documentation leaves off, exploring the how and the why of Akka, in a way that will empower you to grow your applications to new levels of scalability, responsiveness, and performance Scala Puzzlers is a collection of enigmatic Scala code examples that behave highly contrary to expectations and will entertain and enlighten even the most accomplished Scala developer. Challenge your Scala intuition, then treat yourself to a revealing explanation of the reasons underlying the code's actual behavior that will provide important and often fundamental insights into Scala. Get ready for a fun journey that will take you further down the road to Scala mastery "ScalaCheck is a library that facilitates automated specification-based testing of Scala or Java software applications, originally inspired by the QuickCheck library of Haskell. ScalaCheck: The Definitive Guide explains the big ideas behind ScalaCheck, and shows how to use it effectively to write tests at the higher level of property specifications."-- Unedited summary from book There are few things more important than code we think we understand but that behaves contrary to our expectations. This book is an entertaining & instructive way of understanding this language better. It will help you recognize many counter-intuitive traps & pitfalls & prevent them from inflicting production bug hunt stress on Scala developers. A library that facilitates automated specification-based testing of Scala or Java software applications, originally inspired by the QuickCheck library of Haskell. This book explains the big ideas behind it, & shows how to use it effectively to write tests at the higher level of property specifications.