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Hi Scala enthousiasts,We are very pleased to announce DUSE meetup #22, which will be presented by Dirk Louwers, Mark van der Tol and Jan-Pieter van den Heuvel from Plot, a startup company in Amsterdam.Plot is a mobile plugin, bringing real-time location awareness to Android and iOS, fully built on Scala in the backend. The Plot team will grant us an in-depth look into their kitchen and reveal…See More

Hi Scala enthousiasts,We are very pleased to announce DUSE meetup #19 that covers two highlights:First, Raymond Roestenburg, co-author of the upcoming book Akka in Action, will give us a solid introduction of the Apache Camel extension for Akka for which he is one of the main committers.Second, Scala developers at TomTom will present the architecture of their smoothly running highvolume system written in – well – Scala! Akka & CamelApache Camel is a versatile open-source framework that…See More

Hi Scala enthousiasts,I’m happy to announce DUSE meetup  #17 with not only Scala but also Hadoop in the spotlight. Age Mooij will present two powerful Scala DSLs that make handling Hadoop a piece of cake:"Hadoop is the Enterprise Java Beans of our time" - Dean Wampler, NEScala 2012Everyone who has written even the smallest single-job Hadoop program must have noticed how incredibly invasive the Hadoop APIs are. Writing Hadoop programs is not a very intuitive process and it forces you to split up…See More

Hi Scala enthousiasts,I’m content to announce our next DUSE meetup featuring ‘Akka from the trenches’. We’ll have two speaker teams who present their real-world systems built with Akka and Spray.18:00 - 18:30: Food & Drinks18:30 – 20:00: Akka @ NS Freek Wielstra and Age Mooij from Xebia have built a bulk message system for the Dutch Railways fully based on Typesafe’s Akka stack. After a short introduction of the system they will outline why they chose for Akka, how they applied it and which…See More