All what’s left to say shamelessly: the anniversary edition of Scala Days 2019 was amazing! Let’s take a look at how we celebrated turning 10 in Lausanne.

Join the celebration!

We joined the special 10th anniversary edition of Scala Days as a silver sponsor not just because we also turn 10 this year, that’s just an icing on the cake. Our roots run deep in the JVM community and by developing open source projects, sharing our know-how on our tech blog and by speaking at major programming conferences worldwide we try to pay back to people we meet along the way.

Such engagement helped us start lasting friendships and grow as engineers. Ever since, way back in 2013 when Tomek Szymański has launched SoftwareMill with a few friends, it has had a huge impact on how we run our business and shaped the company we are today. Bottom-up, remote and focused on empowering everyone who joins to be a “creative factor”, not a “resource” in a company structure.

We’ve been preparing to Scala Days and our anniversary for quite a while now. Before we headed off to Switzerland we’ve created:

The OSS projects

It’s awesome we had a chance to meet so many of you who are actively using our sttp, tAPIr and other OSS and talk IRL! We highly appreciate the response and contribution we get from you.

You could get familiar with a quick showcase of what we’re developing during the Scala Days poster session.

You’re more than welcome to look them all up on Github:

The Wheel of Scala Fortune contest

Celebrating helps us remember what we value. And for us, it has always been the community. It starts from within. Every day in SoftwareMill we hold a daily standup meeting, aka Chrum, for the whole company. It’s not an ordinary online meeting. With this formula, all of us have a chance to get to know a little more about the people they work with.

For those who are eager to learn more about Chrum the description can be found in the “Meetings format” section. It takes place on TeamSpeak — the software originally created for gamers that has a PushToTalk functionality, and then we use Big Blue Button to have everyone on camera.

We were very much looking forward to connecting with fellow developers, when going to Scala Days. So we decided to animate you a little on our company’s booth! That’s how the Wheel of Scala Fortune contest came to life!