Overview

This is our seventh episode! in it we cover:

• Interview with Damien Katz CTO of couchbase database company and creator of the Couchdb project.

• In what we did section we cover:

Yardena developed a library for monitoring procceses using Akka, she also migrated to git with her team using gitflow and considered gerrit for code reviews but decided on reviewboard.

Ronen gave a talk about Vagrant and opskeleton,He also worked with virtualenv in python land and used swagger to document some API's, carmine is a redis library that he contributed code to.

• In the news we covered:

Prismatic released plumbing.

Language expressiveness survey.

New round of Coursera’s functional programming in scala is starting, a study group in LivePerson, underscore-il group.

Slick 1.0 is out (LINQ for Scala).

Datomisca - Scala API for Datomic.