Signify Technology
Signify Technology
Signify Technology is the only tech recruitment company to specialise purely in Scala. Our aim is to help the Scala community to grow whilst giving back to the community. We are sponsoring many key Scala events around Europe & the USA. Signify provide permanent and contract technology recruitment solutions to a wide range of the world's leading brands who are using Scala at scale.
We are currently helping brands across 17 countries, some of the clients that already trust us include- Lightbend, Twitter, Xing, Zopa, ITV, Zalando, OVO Energy, Rally Health, Getty Images and many of the world’s fastest growing start-up’s. Behind each piece of technology changing the world, is a person, it's our mission to introduce them to the companies that need them the most. We look forward to meeting you, come over say hi to the team and grab some merchandise.
Upcoming Events
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Keynote by Jon Pretty: How I Rebuilt the Typelevel Ecosystem with Fury
Organised by Scala Matters
At this month's Scala Matters, we are excited to be joined by Jon Pretty! Don't miss it!
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Keynote by Adriaan Moors: Scala 2.13 and Beyond!
Organised by Scala Matters
At this month's Scala Matters, we are excited to be joined by Adriaan Moors. Don't miss it!
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Scala Matters with Holden Karau!
Organised by Scala Matters
At this month's Scala Matters, we are excited to be joined by Holden Karau!
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Haskell eXchange 2019
Two days in London
Back for an eighth instalment, the Haskell eXchange is an annual conference created for and by the Skills Matter community. An opportunity for Haskellers to meet, learn and share skills, discover emerging technologies and help evolve the Haskell ecosystem. Everyone is welcome to join, whether you...
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Scala eXchange London 2019
Two days in London
Join us at Scala eXchange London 2019, Europe's largest gathering of Scala engineers, to discover where Scala is headed in 2020 and to meet, learn and share skills with 1,000+ other passionate Scala developers.
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The Death of Final Tagless
Featuring John De Goes
Final tagless. The topic strikes fear into the hearts of Scala developers everywhere—and not without reason. Final tagless allows developers to build composable Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) that model interaction with the outside world. Programs written using the final tagless style can be...
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Reinforcement Learning in Scala
Featuring Chris Birchall
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful machine learning paradigm that has been successfully applied to a wide class of problems, from steering helicopters to predicting stock prices. During this talk you will find out what RL is all about and how to implement it in Scala. Chris will introduce...
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Lightning Talk: Britain’s Computing Education Problem Can Be Fixed
Featuring James Belsey
The new Computing Curriculum describes a genuinely useful and durable set of computing skills. Simon Peyton Jones and others have worked extremely hard to make this a reality for the UK. The new curriculum does a much better job than its predecessors in preparing students for a career in...
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Kotlin vs Scala
Featuring Urs Peter and Joost Heijkoop
You have almost 20 years of Scala experience and have experience with many other languages. Recently you have jumped onto Kotlin, because it looks very promising as Java competitor. Of course there is no one size fits all solution. Joost will show how the two languages compare and explain why and...
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Ciris: Functional Configurations
Featuring Viktor Lövgren
Configurations can be a time bomb waiting to explode. In fact, configuration errors have become a major cause of failures in large-scale systems. Many of these issues arise because configuration values are not validated upfront.
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Keynote: Conveying the Power of Abstraction
Featuring Dr Eugenia Cheng
Abstract mathematics is sometimes thought of being very far removed from real life, perhaps something that people think about with their head in the clouds as opposed to the sort of applied maths and science do when people are thinking about "reality". And yet, many of you who work in...
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Lightning Talk: MTL in 15 minutes
Featuring Pere Villega
This year MTL (and cats-mtl) have come to the forefront. But, what is MTL? How does it work? And how can it help my codebase? In this lightning talk, you will get an introduction to MTL and an answer to all those questions, so you can start exploring this new technique.
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Refactor All the Things!
Featuring Daniela Sfregola
Learning the syntax is just the first step towards mastering a new language. Idiomatic expressions and good practices must also be adopted to produce code that is readable and performant. Without guidance on its specific style, you can quickly develop habits that could cause your application to...
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Embrace the Implicit
Featuring Anna Bladzich
Implicits are often regarded with suspicion by developers, with some teams going as far as banning them from their codebases.
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