# Learning Scala at SoundCloud

DevFeed: [Learning Scala at SoundCloud](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/learning-scala-at-soundcloud-2072.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//learning-scala-at-soundcloud>)

Published: 2022-04-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [Scala](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scala.md>), [Go](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go.md>), [Functional programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/functional-programming.md>), [Concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrency.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [functional-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/functional-programming.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [golang](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/golang.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [scala](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scala.md>)

## AI overview

A backend developer describes learning Scala after joining SoundCloud, where Scala is widely used for microservices. The article covers courses, books, varied study methods, help from colleagues, personal objectives, and differences between Go and Scala, including their approaches to concurrency and parallelism.

## Source excerpt

I'm a backend developer who worked extensively writing code in Golang before joining SoundCloud. SoundCloud mostly uses Scala for its...