Building an open source Scala gRPC/REST HTTP Proxy for Kafka (I)
Day 0 of the journey on building my first Scala GraalVM ZIO application
Caveat: Normally I write posts about how I tackled a problem and present the solution on a silver platter.
In this series I’d like you to take you on a journey of exploration. I have no idea how fast this will progress or where it will end up. I will try to work at least 1 day a week on this.
There are way better tutorials write ups for each of these tools (zio, kafka, api, graalvm), but I just want to show that even people working for years in the software engineering field still don’t know everything, have to learn and are beginners when broaching new terrains.
Follow along at your own risk ;-)
Scala ecosystem
I’ve been working with Scala for quite some time, but as most Scala devs know there is this separation between the Scala Spark crowd (California School) vs the Scala Functional Programming crowd (Glasgow School).
Even as a member of the former one, I’ve always tried to make my a FP as possible. However, truth be told, the Spark API does not require that level of strictness and even feels like you are being punished for trying to do it the pure typed…
