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Learning Scala Web Development

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Produced in 2016

Course Description

Note: Learning Scala Web Development was created by Packt Publishing. It was originally released on 5/30/2016. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Embark on an exciting journey into the universe of web development using the Scala programming language and frameworks- "natural choices for back-end developers building highly scalable, reliable, and reactive RESTful web services and APIs. This training is the starting point for mastering the nonblocking and asynchronous programming models that lie in the heart of the Spray framework. It starts with an introduction to the REST architecture. Then switch gears to the Akka toolkit and framework, building a sample book catalog application along the way.

Once you've learned about the REST architectural style and Actor model- "the foundations that the Spray framework is built upon- "you'll shape out your own RESTful web services by providing simple route definitions. Further on in the course, author Andriy Redko delves into authentication and authorization, secure transport, documentation, testing, and caching support. Finally, you will learn how to develop the Spray client API to call external web services.

Beginner Level

Time: 2h 11m

Instructor Details

Andriy Redko

Andriy Redko is a seasoned software developer and blogger.

He's passionate about technology and software development in general. He works extensively with the JVM platform using Java, Groovy, and Scala, as well as other languages and technologies (Ruby, Grails, Play, Akka, MySQL, PostreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, JUnit, and more).