Overview

This is our ninth episode! in it we cover:

• An interview with Jose Valim about Elixir.

• In what we did section we cover:

Yardena mentioned the Micro-services architecture, she also gave a talk at reversim about Scala and Akka.

Yardena used SBT to package docker instances of Spark and Play.

Ronen released Celestial publicly.

Octo a tiny Elixir project for backing up github.

Puppet Backup module and Opskeleton testing support were mentioned also.

• In the news we covered:

Docker and Go presentation.

Clojure slow startup analysis.

Clojure web security sucks.

Can Java 8 replace Scala.

Akka 2.3.

Dotty Scala 3.0.