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 Valentin Kasas on The Last Frontier and Beyond
Organised by Scala Matters
Have you written boilerplate code for your business model that needs to keep up with the rate you're profession is scaling at? Join Valentin Kasas at this month's Scala Matters who'll be sharing with us how to help your business classes evolve without breaking compatibility.
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Keynote Evening with Zainab Ali!
Organised by Scala Matters
Zainab Ali will be joining us this month's Scala Matters to share her keynote! Zainab is the author of Libra and a contributor to many functional Scala libraries, such as cats and fs2. Don't miss it!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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