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AKKA Blogs
Company blog · typesafe.com/blogprogrammingsystems
AKKA Blogs is the company blog at typesafe.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2011, 66 different Hacker News readers have linked it 90 times, most often “Martin Odersky (Scala creator) launches company to commercialize scala and akka”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (28) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link typesafe.com for Scala and Akka resources: the free e-book Scala for the Impatient, case studies, Activator templates, and tooling announcements for Scala and SBT.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 28 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Martin Odersky (Scala creator) launches company to commercialize scala and akka3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-05-12
- /stack/scala_ide_download3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-19
- Improved dependency management with sbt 0.13.72 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-02
- Scala For the Impatient: Free eBook2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-01
- Typesafe announces Akka Streams, a part of the Reactive Streams Initiative2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-17
- Scala 2.11 just launched2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-23
What Hacker News says?
Weird, their website seems to have the same color scheme as http://typesafe.com/ .
Comment linking /
on “Final – A credit card built for the 21st century”Submitted Martin Odersky (Scala creator) launches company to commercialize scala and akka as a story · 135 points
HN discussionIn my opinion http://www.typesafe.com stack is the most powerful and consistent one running on JVM. Scala/Play/Akka/Slick/SBT speaks for itself and I enjoy every day of working with it.
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on “JDK 8 Release Notes”Submitted Typesafe’s Commitment to the Scala Ecosystem as a story · 91 points
HN discussionThis is probably SBT's greatest weakness and Gradle's biggest strength, relatively. I've never run in to this personally, probably because I'm use Nexus[1] as a repository cache. My understanding is that the underlying problem is a limitation of the dependency resolution library they use, Ivy[2]. Gradle used to use this but at some point wrote their own dependency resolution library. There are some improvements in r…
Comment linking /blog/improved-dependency-management-with-sbt-0137
on “Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland”Submitted Play Framework Grid Deployment with Mesos as a story · 89 points
HN discussionAs far as books go, Scala for the Impatient is one of the few I'd recommend. The first half of it is available for free https://www.typesafe.com/resources/e-book/scala-for-the-impa...
Comment linking /resources/e-book/scala-for-the-impatient
on “Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths”Submitted Renaming the Company as a story · 72 points
HN discussionTypesafe also just announced a tutoring program for this and the intro course. http://typesafe.com/blog/announcing_typesafe_new_coursera_tu...
Comment linking /blog/announcing_typesafe_new_coursera_tutoring_program
on “Principles of Reactive Programming”Submitted More than 2800 developers speak out about Java 8 as a story · 56 points
HN discussionMight I suggest Scala[1]? It is a modern languages with mature build tools and development environment. It also has a lot of nice tools surrounding network services and web development[2]. [1] http://www.scala-lang.org/ [2] http://typesafe.com/stack
Comment linking /stack
on “C vs GO”Submitted How Scala compares with 20 other programming languages according to Reddit as a story · 22 points
HN discussionYeah, historically the artifact resolution has been kind of slow if you have several sub projects. However, there was just a new release of SBT that added a bunch of improvements for this[1]. [1] http://typesafe.com/blog/improved-dependency-management-with...
Comment linking /blog/improved-dependency-management-with-sbt-0137
on “Java Doesn’t Suck”Submitted Lucid Software uses Typesafe for next generation platform [pdf] as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThere are already builders out of China that you can approach for custom solutions. I also wouldn't expect Marvell or Intel(especially with their acquisition of Fulcrum Microsystems last year) to sit by idly. Another interesting thing we'll start to see is the use of concurrent programming languages by the established vendors to stay heavily involved and dare I say relevant? Juniper announced a few months back they…
Comment linking /company/news/23506
on “VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B”Submitted Activator 1.3.0 released as a story · 11 points
HN discussionFew other great learning resources for Scala: - a "JSFiddle" like editor for Scala: http://scalakata.com - Interactive tours: http://scalatutorials.com/tour , http://www.scala-tour.com , http://www.simplyscala.com - Learn Scala in X minutes: http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/scala/ - Typesafe Activator: http://www.typesafe.com/activator - Official docs of course: http://docs.scala-lang.org/
Comment linking /activator
on “Scala School”Submitted Concurrent sharing of “data in motion” across clusters with CRDTs in Akka as a story · 9 points
HN discussionOh, that Scala School looks great, thanks! I also found this: http://typesafe.com/activator/templates <- some templates to get started with the Typesafe stack. I guess it's another weekend lost for me =)
Comment linking /activator/templates
on “Don't design your own REST back end”Submitted What is Typesafe Activator? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionOn http://typesafe.com you'll find plenty examples using the whole stack. When I was learning Scala I found http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/ best source to break into it. http://playframework.com is a good source of tutorials and docs for Play. http://akka.io is the home of Akka and http://slick.typesafe.com is Slick's website.
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on “Don't design your own REST back end”Submitted Typesafe’s Commitment to the Scala Ecosystem as a story · 9 points
HN discussionInterestingly Scala 2.12 will have support for user defined types using function literals (it's actually in 2.11 behind a compiler flag). This feature is referred SAM (single abstract method) functions [1]. Also, there are plans to move tuples to something more like HLists. You can see it here[2] as part of 3 under 'Don Giovanni'. [1] - https://typesafe.com/blog/scala-211-has-arrived [2] - http://www.scala-lang.org/…
Comment linking /blog/scala-211-has-arrived
on “Scala: Where it came from, Where it's going”Submitted Scala Named a “Top Technology for Modern Developers” as a story · 9 points
HN discussionEasiest way is to just download the eclipse+scala ide all in one bundle from typesafe : http://typesafe.com/stack/scala_ide_download
Comment linking /stack/scala_ide_download
on “Functional Programming Principles in Scala starts today”Submitted Code Size is down, Performance is up: Why Datazenit went Reactive as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis can be solved by minimizing blocking code, either by using actors (Erlang, Akka, etc) or just chaining callbacks on futures/promises and using monadic composition to avoid callback hell. For a concrete example, check out my Redis-based Twitter clone http://typesafe.com/activator/template/redis-twitter-clone , running at https://clockwork-semaphore.herokuapp.com/# .
Comment linking /activator/template/redis-twitter-clone
on “D for the Win”Submitted Typesafe Activator as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMost of these aren't detailed but it's a start. FP complete is a startup devoted to bringing haskell into more production systems http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/606-Real-World-... http://corp.galois.com/systems-software http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry http://cufp.org/conference/schedule/2012 https://www.fpcomplete.com/business/resources/case-studies _____________ similar for scal…
Comment linking /company/casestudies
on “The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer”Submitted Typesafe Launches ConductR as a story · 4 points
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