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 Zainab Ali on Abstract Data Types In The Region Of Abysmal Pain, And How To Navigate Them
Organised by Scala Matters
Are abstract data types the source of your pain points? Are you struggling to find a data structure to fit your data types? Zainab Ali will be joining us at this month's Scala Matters to share her keynote on how to navigate these issues. Don't miss it!
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Keynote by Naoki Takezoe on Revisit Dependency Injection in Scala and Introduction to Airframe
Organised by Scala Matters
At this month's Scala Matters, Naoki Takezoe will be joining us all the way from Japan to share his keynote on Dependency Injection and how it can improve maintainability and testability of your applications. Don't miss it!
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Haskell eXchange 2019
Two days in London
Back for its eighth instalment, 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 Last Frontier and Beyond
Featuring Valentin Kasas
Have you ever written some boilerplate code for handling your application’s communication with the outside world? You know, that JSON (de)serializer that once was nicely generated at compile-time but broke when you had to evolve your business model?
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Why API Design Matters, and Why Yours Sucks! (and mine sucks too!)
Featuring Dick Wall
Scala offers incredible power and flexibility, providing features from many different languages and philosophies. This leads to a very diverse ecosystem and a wide range of possibilities for solving the same problems in very different ways.
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The Elements of Tagless Final Style
Featuring Noel Welsh
Much has been said about tagless final style. It is variously dead, alive, or rising from the grave to wreak revenge upon its detractors.
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Scala 2.13 and Beyond!
Featuring Adriaan Moors
The headline feature for this year's Scala release is a reworked collections library, with a focus on simplicity and performance. As we look forward to Scala 3, Adriaan is really excited to deliver the first significant part of his team's vision for the next decade of functional...
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How I Rebuilt the Typelevel Ecosystem with Fury
Featuring Jon Pretty
Fury is a new build tool and dependency manager for Scala, based on a radical new model of source dependencies and distributed builds. The Typelevel ecosystem offers a platform of many useful Scala projects which have been converted to use Fury.
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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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Unfolding Programs With Interpreters
Featuring Regis Kuckaertz
Free and tagless algebras are now in the mainstream. They give you the power to reason about your programs in a purely functional fashion and compose DSLs willy-nilly. Something that doesn’t get talked about much in the Scala world is that the treatment you give DSLs can be applied to their...
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Meetings With Remarkable Trees
Featuring Bodil Stokke
Everybody knows the classic cons list. Clojeurs brag about their bitmapped vector tries. Haskell weenies took it up a notch with their impossible finger trees. Rustaceans turned back the clock and gave us simple arrays again.
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Connecting the Dots With (Distributed) Tracing
Featuring Petra Bierleutgeb
In microservice-oriented, asynchronous and often event-driven systems, looking at traditional log files only gives a glimpse of the whole story. In such systems, and even within a single service, tracing and correlated logs are important tools to maintain the ability to comprehend logical flows...
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Concurrency and Asynchrony in Scala
Featuring Greg Dorrell
Scala supports a lot of different ways of programming. Just in the world of concurrency, you have many options: Scala Futures, Twitter Futures, Akka (both Actors and Streams), Monix, fs2, cats-effect, and the list goes on. How do they work? Which one should you use?
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