Rock the JVM

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

For those who don’t know yet, almost the entire Twitter backend runs on Scala, and the Finagle library is at the core of almost all Twitter services. They also built an entire ecosystem of libraries, tools and frameworks on top of Finagle, which have been successfully used in production at other big companies (e.g.

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Scala Algorithm Systems Building 40

Rockset

JANUARY 10, 2020

This leads to analysts and data scientists either doing nothing or finagling their own data pipeline. Data engineers are usually backed-up with the amount of work they need to do and often data for ad-hoc analysis might not be a priority. This takes their time away from what they should be focused on.

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Data Warehouse Data Pipeline Insurance Data Storage 40

Rock the JVM

MAY 22, 2023

Finagle is a set of pragmatic Scala libraries used by Twitter in production. They innovated with a few concepts that are now present in various Scala libraries — if you can believe it, Finagle had the Future concept before the Scala standard library, and to this day is more powerful, with support for cancellation and distributed invocations.

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