AI-augmented Scala development masterclass

Unlock faster, smarter Scala software development with our 2-day hands-on masterclass. Backed by 15+ years of Scala expertise as well as developing Scala and its core ecosystem, we’ll show your team how to integrate AI tooling seamlessly and boost productivity without disruption.

⏺ Speed up your Scala workflows

⏺ Integrate AI seamlessly with existing technology

⏺ Get tailored best practices from Scala maintainers and practitioners

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Learn from the Scala maintainers and contributers

We’ve built hundreds of Scala systems, contributed to core Scala tooling, created popular OSS libraries, and developed expertise in maximizing our clients' developer productivity. Now, we’re offering a unique masterclass on supercharging Scala development with AI tooling.

You’ll learn how to:

Harness the latest AI models to speed up your Scala code development.
Integrate AI seamlessly with existing tooling, or customize new ones when needed.
Tailor best practices to your team’s exact needs.

Shaped by 15+ years of Scala experience

We've worked on numerous critical systems for many Fortune 500 companies, created OSS libraries, and been engaged with core tooling areas like IDEs, cli-tools, CI/CD pipelines. Since 2020, we’ve started core work on the Scala 3 compiler and its entire release train. This unique experience gave us a very special expertise in building Scala-based systems efficiently.

How We Work

A simple, proven structure designed for real results.

Discovery Session

Short call 1–2 weeks before to tailor the workshop.

Day 1 Workshop

AI-augmented Scala setup, prompting & context engineering, MCP tooling usage and design

Day 2 workshop

Greenfield and brownfield workflows, automated migrations with Scalafix, agent orchestration

Follow-up

Wrap-up session to address open questions.

Key Areas Covered

AI-augmented development setup.

Everything you need to get started, using Cursor and Claude Code environment (+ additional tools as needed by organization) Scala exercises to get you up and running with some interesting tooling features.

Prompt & Context Engineering

Write prompts and manage context efficiently, so the AI tooling works for you and not against you. How to correctly set up context, guardrails like style guides, leverage personas, and how to reuse them efficiently across projects and organizations. Advanced prompting techniques (chaining, multimodality, tree of thoughts etc). Tackling context issues.

MCP and external tooling

Integrate useful MCP tools, learn how to select the best ones, and build your own tailored to your needs. Efficient MCP usage, hallucination reduction, setups, and experimentation. Good practices on the usage of external tooling.

Greenfield and brownfield workflows

Greenfield project foundation building vs large code base considerations and how-tos. Hands-on examples.

AI and large-scale code migrations

Learn how to leverage AI and rich Scala tooling to deterministically refactor and migrate Scala codebases.

Multi-agent orchestration

Learn the truth behind effective strategies for working with many agents simultaneously to increase productivity even further. Good practices for experimental and parallel executions. Orchestration challenges. Experimentation and hands-on exercises.

What you'll gain from us

Outcomes

We help you to make all the tooling work for you, right out of the bat.
Engineering teams that focus on business problems instead of boilerplate and tool integration.
We tailor the content for your environment so you smoothly transition without disrupting what already works.
Conventions and prompts serve as living templates and scaffolds for future use.

Benefits

Improved efficiency
Morale boost
Minimal disruption
Durable standards and faster onboarding

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