Welcome to new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!

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It has been a week since last time, so lets catch-up on the latest Scala happenings...

Updated Software

• lift-omniauth 0.17 released
• ScalikeJDBC 2.2.2 is out

Older Content

• Simulating a financial exchange in Scala, comprehensive blog post by Shahbaz Chaudhary
• Scala tips: Improving the imperfect part 2, a blog post by Yennick Trevels
• The Magnet Pattern, great explanation by Mathias Doenitz
• Who's More Functional: Kotlin, Groovy, Scala, or Java?, a presentation by Andrey Breslav
• Type Families Make Life and Free Monads Simpler, interesting article by Aaron Levin

New Content

• Scala 2.11.5 is now available!, check it out in a post by Adrian Moors
• Let's indroduce Ammonite, a library for writing shell scripts in Scala
• Building an Android App using Scala, nice guide by Matthias Koch
• Event Sourcing at Global Scale, great blog post by  Martin Krasser
• PayPal Scala Style Guidelines, new style guide started by Aaron Schlesinger
• A Gentle Introduction To Akka Streams, nice tutorial by Michael Hamrah
• How to execute (exec) external system commands in Scala, great how-to by Alvin Alexander
• Why you should care about reactive database access, interesting article by Michael Nitschinger
• Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations, great slides by Chris Johnson
• Akka Typed Actors are coming, check out PR by Roland Kuhn

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That’s all folks. You can get in touch with me directly via email or on Twitter(@petr_zapletal) with any Scala news or content. Tip: Tweet about your content using hashtag #Scala. 

Also if you are interested in the latest Devops news you can check Laura's blog post: This week in #DevOps (13/01/2015)