Programming - Language
Scala
A programming language that lets developers structure and combine code in flexible ways
What's it for?
Lets developers build software on the Java platform and is often used for large-scale data processing.
For example…
The nightly risk-aggregation job is a Scala Spark job on Databricks; analysts only see the table it writes
A data engineer writes a Spark transformation in Scala to process a very large event dataset across a cluster
Think of it like…
Specialist workshop behind the data factory: not everyone goes in, but a few critical machines live there