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Why would a mostly similar language on the same runtime even help you scale that much? Surely it's about frameworks and technologies!



The author is very clear that you can scale Java and Scala in the same ways. But doing this in Scala is much more idiomatic and concise.


In the past few months, I have found the relative simplicity of vert.x trump play where ever an asynchronous framework needs to be used. And for everything else, there is the Servlet API.




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