"In this session, Twitter engineer Alex Payne will explore how the popular social messaging service builds scalable, distributed systems in the Scala programming language. Since 2008, Twitter has moved the development of its most critical systems to Scala, which blends object-oriented and functional programming with the power, robust tooling, and vast library support of the Java Virtual Machine. F
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