Blog & Articles by Alexey Novakov

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Aeternity Smart Contract Deployment

The Forgae framework offers developments tools to easily test and deploy Aeternity smart contracts, and start a local environment on the developer’s workstation.

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Aeternity Smart Contract Development

Aeternity is a blockchain implementation which offers the functional language Sophia for smart contract development and a number of native components like oracles, names for addresses and state channels. The Sophia language is a strongly typed language which helps to focus on business logic during the implementation of a smart contract.

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Ethereum Contracts with Truffle Framework
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Functional Service in Scala

Functional programming helps programmers to reason about their codebase using referential transparency and side-effect control principles. Let’s push the limit and make pure-functional REST service using IO Monad from Cats-Effect project. First, we will do that using Akka-HTTP library and standard Scala Future as effect type. Afterwards, we will switch to abstract effect F to have a choice, when it comes to run our embedded program.

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Report Generator in Rust

In this blog post, we are going to build a backend application in Rust for converting HTML report into PDF format. Rust is a system programming language which focuses on performance, stability and memory safety. There are thousands of Rust libraries built by its community and we are going to build our application using some of these libraries.