In this video tutorial taken from TheServerSide.com's Java University, Craig Tataryn explains the benefits of exploring a JVM alternative, and particularly Scala.

Here we begin a series of articles to look at Scala. Scala is a programming language that rides atop the Java virtual machine. In compiles to Java bytecode and can be packaged in Jar files. Scala and ...

Yammer, which bills itself as the “enterprise social network,” had tapped Scala, a general-purpose, statically typed language on the Java Virtual Machine, for high-performance back-end services.

Scala, a trendy object-oriented and functional language for the Java Virtual Machine, is now aligned with Java 8, the latest release of the standard Java platform.

The developers behind the Sumatra project are currently focusing on developing OpenCL support with Java 8 technologies, but they expect the development research to influence GPU hardware ...

Lightbend survey reveals Scala developers are outpacing Java developers when it comes to microservices adoption, they're embracing cloud-native more strongly, and devs from both camps think containers ...