Beginner's Guide to Scala & Functional Programming

Beginner's Guide to Scala & Functional Programming

Scala: Cats Effect

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Scala: Cats Effect

In this series, I will try to introduce different concepts in Cats Effects. This is going to be a list of many short articles regarding the key features of Cats Effect.

Error Handling in Cats Effect [Part-9]
1. Introduction This is another part of the Cats Effect 3 series. In this short part, let's look at some of the ways to handle errors in Cats Effect 3. 2. Raising an Error Firstly, let's see how we can raise an error in CE. We can create a failed IO ...
Apr 23, 20233 min read1.4K
Common Operators in Cats Effect 3 [Part-8]
Introduction This is the 8th part of the Cats Effect 3 blog series. In this part, let's discuss about the other common operators/methods available in Cats Effect which were not discussed in the previous parts. Blocking As discussed in the previous se...
May 26, 20223 min read1.1K
Synchronisation and Concurrent Access in Cats Effect 3 [Part 7]
Introduction This is the part 7 of the Cats Effect 3 blog series. In this part, we will be looking at the synchronisation primitives available in CE3. Synchronisation and Concurrency When we have multiple fibers/threads working on the same datasets, ...
May 25, 20226 min read681
Cancellation of IO/Fiber in Cats Effect 3 [Part 6]
Introduction This is the sixth part of Cats Effect series. In the part 4 of this series, we looked at concurrent programming in Cats Effect 3 using Fibers. In this part, we'll look at cancellation of already running IOs/Fibers. Cancellation One of th...
May 18, 20225 min read1.4K
Resource Handling in Cats Effect 3 [Part 5]
Introduction This is the fifth part of the Cats Effect 3 blog series. In this part, we will look at resource handling in Cats Effect 3. Why is Resource Handling Important? Resources are generally things like Files, Sockets, DB connections, etc which...
May 13, 20225 min read1.1K
Concurrent Execution in Cats Effect using Fibers [Part 4]
Introduction This is the fourth part in the Cats Effect 3 Blog Series. In the previous part, we looked at different ways to traverse and chain IOs. We also looked at parallel APIs of Cats Effect IO. In this part, we will look at one of the most impo...
May 9, 20224 min read1.2K