Li Haoyi gives us a peek behind the curtain:
With hundreds of developers and millions of lines of code, Databricks is one of the largest Scala shops around. This post will be a broad tour of Scala at Databricks, from its inception to usage, style, tooling and challenges. We will cover topics ranging from cloud infrastructure and bespoke language tooling to the human processes around managing our large Scala codebase. From this post, you’ll learn about everything big and small that goes into making Scala at Databricks work, a useful case study for anyone supporting the use of Scala in a growing organization.
It’s always interesting to see how the largest companies handle certain classes of problems. From this post, we can get an idea of the high-level requirements and usage, making it worth the read.