Interviews

Although we won't have Scala Days this year, the Scala Love conference is all the rage. The technology lets us transcend physical boundaries – we can unite while being far away... well, at least as long as there are tickets left ;) Owing to high demand, the IntelliJ Scala team has volunteered to extend the conference by hosting a third track called Harmony, in addition to the two existing o

This is a guest blog post by Jeff Zhang, a speaker at multiple events around Big Data, an active contributor to various open source projects related to Big Data, an Apache member, and a staff engineer at Alibaba Group. Last week, Jeff did a webinar for JetBrains Big Data Tools where he gave an overview on who data engineers are and what tools they use. The webinar was so interesting that we asked

Scala Days is not only a major event for the Scala community, but also a great place to meet amazing people and get inspiration. If you've been to Scala Days in Berlin this year, you might have seen a great talk "Serious Fun with Scala" by a 14 years old Shadaj Laddad, Scala enthusiast and wunderkind. We couldn't miss the chance to catch Shadaj and ask him a few questions for our blog about Scala,

As some of you may know, this June the whole Scala plugin team took a break and went to Berlin to enjoy Scala Days 2014, and of course to meet IntelliJ IDEA users! Alexander Podkhalyuzin, a lead developer of the Scala plugin, used this chance to catch Jason Zaugg, a Scala rockstar and developer at Typesafe, and talk about Scala Compiler, Dotty and IntelliJ IDEA. Enjoy the interview! Alexander: