[gregorkas]

I imagine that Futures are something like JavaScript Promises. I just thought I should mention this because "Web Developers" was mentioned in the title, but the topic itself is Scala oriented. Nothing wrong with this, but it could mention Scala in the title.

[_Codemonkeyism]

Thanks for the feedback.

I've struggled what to name developers who write server side web code and thought web developer is better than frontend developer.

[Edit: And I didn't want to make this about Scala but be insightful to others as well. "For" in Scala is very specific though I admit, but I'd add other examples on how to combine Futures in other languages (perhaps not Haskell as a lot has been written here before, much better than I could)]

[hardwaresofton]

Pretty sure they're normally called "backend developers"?

Also, I'd remove the mention of monads, for fear someone would stop to look that up, and enter the shit-storm that is monad explanations.

[_Codemonkeyism]

Thanks.

About monads: Feared that too, will remove monad references and add something to the end about monads.

[hardwaresofton]

I don't know which guides you like, but I loved this one on monads: http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...

I feel like the key to any successful monad explanation is going functors->applicatives->monads.