Today we are going to deep dive into the Scala Cats again to find out about Monoids. If you haven’t already read my post about Diving into Scala Cats — Semigroups I suggest you do so now.

What are Monoids?

The Monoid extends Semigroup and adds a default or fallback value for the given type. Monoid type class comes with two methods - one is the combine method of Semigroups, and another one is the empty method that performs identity operation.

In the post about Semigroups, we saw an example where we’re using Semigroups along with Scala’s fold() to operate on a collection…

New to Cats? No worries, go through my previous article Getting Started with Scala Cats to understand how amazing Cats is.

In this article, we will cover the concepts and implementation of Semigroups in Cats.

What are Semigroups?

In functional programming terms a Semigroup is a concept which encapsulates aggregation with an associative binary operation.

The Semigroup type class comes with a method combine which simply combines two values of same data type by following the principle of Associativity.

combine method is constructed as:

trait Semigroup[A] {
    def combine(x: A, y: A): A
}

and can be implemented as:

// The type class…

Introduction

This article is about Scala Cats. It is a library that provides the abstraction for functional programming in the Scala programming language. The name is a playful shortening of the word category.

Cats is a lightweight, modular, and extensible library for functional programming.

Cats contains a wide variety of functional programming tools and allows developers to pick the required ones. The majority of these tools are delivered in the form of type classes that we can apply to existing Scala types.

What are Type Classes?

Type classes are a programming pattern originating in Haskell. They allow us to extend existing libraries with new functionality…

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This series is all about the taste of Scala.
It is best suitable for all the newbies in Scala.

You may also like:
Scala Beginner Series (1) : Basics
Scala Beginner Series (2) : Object Oriented Scala

In the previous part, we covered the:

• Classes, constructors, inheritance, and abstract classes
• Traits and anonymous classes
• Singleton objects and companion objects
• Case classes and case objects

This article will cover the functional nature of the Scala language.

Pure Functions

The first fundamental concept of functional Scala is pure functions.

Here is a very strict definition of…

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Overview

According to the Reactive Manifesto, a critical element in any Reactive system is that it is message-driven. But what does it mean to be message-driven?

Message-driven systems are those that communicate primarily through asynchronous and non-blocking messages. Messages enable us to build systems that are both resilient, and elastic, and therefore responsive under a variety of situations.

Message Driven Architecture

We have various ways of accomplishing synchronous and asynchronous messaging. But when we try to use synchronous messages to accomplish the task where an asynchronous message is required or vice-versa, things break down. …

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This series is all about the taste of Scala.
It is best suitable for all the newbies in Scala.

You may also like: Scala Beginner Series (1) : Basics

In the previous part, we covered:

• Values, variables, expressions and types
• Functions and recursion
• The Unit type

This article will cover the object oriented nature of Scala language.

Classes

Scala has the same concept of a class as we have in other languages.

Classes in Scala are blueprints for creating objects. They can contain methods, values, variables, objects, traits and super-classes which are collectively…

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This series is all about the taste of Scala. It is best suitable for all the newbies in Scala. So here we go…

This article will cover the fundamentals of Scala language.

Values

In Scala, we work with values:

Values are used to define constants. val modifier means constant or immutable that means we cannot change its value once it is created. Thus reassignment to val is prohibited.

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Building a Reactive System is all about the balance between consistency and availability and the consequences of picking one over the other. This article mainly focuses on consistency and availability and how they impact the scalability of a system.

What is Scalability, Consistency and Availability?

A system is considered scalable if it can meet the increase in demand while remaining responsive.
A system is considered consistent if all the nodes show the same data at the same time.
A system is considered available if it remains responsive despite any failures.

How does…