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Key Features Get the first book to explore Scala performance techniques in depth! Real-world inspired use cases illustrate and support the techniques studied and the language features This book is written by Vincent Theron and Michael Diamant, software engineers with several years of experience in the high-frequency trading and programmatic advertising industries Book Description Scala is a statically and strongly typed language that blends functional and object-oriented paradigms. It has experienced growing popularity as an appealing and pragmatic choice to write production-ready software in the functional paradigm. Scala and the functional programming paradigm enable you to solve problems with less code and lower maintenance costs than the alternatives. However, these gains can come at the cost of performance if you are not careful. Scala High Performance Programming arms you with the knowledge you need to create performant Scala applications. Starting with the basics of understanding how to define performance, we explore Scala's language features and functional programming techniques while keeping a close eye on performance throughout all the topics. We introduce you as the newest software engineer at a fictitious financial trading company, named MV Trading. As you learn new techniques and approaches to reduce latency and improve throughput, you'll apply them to MV Trading’s business problems. By the end of the book, you will be well prepared to write production-ready, performant Scala software using the functional paradigm to solve real-world problems. What you will learn Analyze the performance of JVM applications by developing JMH benchmarks and profiling with Flight Recorder Discover use cases and performance tradeoffs of Scala language features, and eager and lazy collections Explore event sourcing to improve performance while working with stream processing pipelines Dive into asynchronous programming

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Vincent Theron

Vincent Theron is a professional software engineer with 9 years of experience. He discovered Scala 6 years ago and uses it to build highly scalable and reliable applications. He designs software to solve business problems in various industries, including online gambling, financial trading, and, most recently, advertising. He earned a master's degree in computer science and engineering from Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Vincent lives in the Boston area with his wife, his son, and two furry cats.

Michael Diamant

Michael Diamant is a professional software engineer and functional programming enthusiast. He began his career in 2009 focused on Java and the object-oriented programming paradigm. After learning about Scala in 2011, he has focused on using Scala and the functional programming paradigm to build software systems in the financial trading and advertising domains. Michael is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and lives in the Boston area.

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Paperback: 274 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (May 31, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 178646604X
ISBN-13: 978-1786466044
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 5 customer ratings
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,635,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Noah C.

A Must read for anyone writing Scala in a High Performance Environment!

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016

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Great book that takes you from the basic building blocks of performance testing all the way to implementing and testing a high performance trading system in Scala. It shows the tradeoffs from different design patterns and hidden gotchas in Scala and the JVM ecosystem. A must read for anyone who's writing Scala/Java code in a High Performance Environment!

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Tomer Ben David

This book is indeed very good, it's going through an application and checks many ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2017

As there were a few reviews I wanted to add my contribution. This book is indeed very good, it's going through an application and checks many aspects around its scala coding techniques and its scalability. It consistently analyzes the byte code and desugaring of the scala code to understand its performance penalty. All in all it was indeed a great book, personally I just like it when the examples are very very short and concise i prefer in books more text less code to understand the concept this is why from my view 4 stars.

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NERMIN SERIFOVIC

A unique perspective on writing highly performant functional Scala code

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2016

Disclaimer: I was the technical reviewer for this book.

Nowadays there are many books written on the topic of Scala and its ecosystem, so it is not an easy task to bring a unique perspective. This book succeeds in doing so, as it focuses on producing highly performant code while staying within the realm of functional programing. To some that may sound as an oxymoron, but the authors prove in this book it is quite possible to achieve the goal, using a problem from a real-world business domain.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in hands-on learning of computing performance on the JVM platform. As a bonus, you will get exposed to a lot of intricacies of Scala not covered in other books.

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