Combining Scala functional libraries for fun and productivity — Scala often gets a reputation for how complicated it is to write and setup and how much boilerplate there is. The same goes for functional programming. My goal is to show you the opposite — how even with limited knowledge of the following topics you can productively use competing libraries…

A simple guide on plugging in tracing to your services — Tracing your distributed system is important for bringing in some clarity to an otherwise tumultuous environment. The goal of this blog is to promote the tracing of your services and to show how simple it is to get it working with Scala and ZIO. …

Fields and columns that could save you lots of time — I’ll share my two tips for database structure based on “what I wish I had” when working with — and maintaining legacy applications. I’ve experienced the pain of not following the recommendations below — fixing it required lots of time and a deliberate approach. …

Exploring Completion & Context Suggester — In this article, we’ll explore implementing typeahead (or in other words, autocomplete) for a real dataset using Completion Suggester. We’ll then create phrases that map to our completion and ask for some suggestions based on the movie’s title. …

Prelude We will be looking into ways of accessing your Gmail via Google API, following it up further with a low-level approach — programmatically via SMTP & XOAuth2. This is a rather uncommon way, as the provided client APIs are sufficient in most cases. …