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All of the programming, Scala, Functional and Tech blogs that we have been loving over the past week. This week we have a two-part series of blog posts on Akka, from Hernan Saab and theHernansote's Blog. Part one takes a look at; rendering buttons, setting up the application model, and it is called, Using akka and react to organize your single page scala.js application. Part...

We can't believe another year has flown by and although it's come with its bumps along the way, we couldn't be more grateful for another year added onto our journey. Our way of celebrating Signify Technology is to look back on all the incredible things we've been honoured to be a part of. We want to thank all of our candidates and clients for supporting another year of the S...

From zero to Scala? That's what we all need! And that's what we got at Scala in the City with Fabio Tiriticco so check out his talk. From Zero To Deep Learning With Scala Do you want to get started with deep learning using Scala? This talk introduces AI / deep learning from scratch and guides you through an unique image classification use case, for which both dataset and cod...

Our second virtual Scala in the City meet-up was a HUGE success and... it featured Haoyi Li! The Scala REPL lets you interactively run Scala code snippets and see the results. This talk will explore how far you can stretch the Scala REPL, performing difficult tasks that you may normally associate with larger efforts. Through these exercises, we will see how useful work you a...

Want to know the sweet spot for functional programming in Scala? John De Goes showed us this magical place in his talk at Scala in the City Virtual Conference! FP to the Min In 2018, John A. De Goes did a live coding session for the Functional Programming Group entitled, “FP to the Max”. Watched by tens of thousands of Scala developers, the video helped many understand the b...

In our knowledge-based economy, skilled professionals are the deciding factor of business success. However, talent is hard to come by due to rising demand. And the only way to come out ahead in the chase for talent is by optimizing your recruitment strategy. This is easier said than done. While there is no shortage of candidates thanks to the globalization of the labor marke...

Soteria the open-source sbt plugin that you never knew you needed until now! Leo Benkel takes a look at the way Soteria can be used as a solution at the #SignifyScalaConf. Leo is going to introduce an open-source sbt plugin: Soteria. Soteria allows you to configure what scala version, sbt version, libraries are allowed to be used in your projects and can block compilation fo...

From Cats to ZIO these are the blog posts and articles you don't won't want to miss from the past week. First up it has to be a Scala blog, it's a lovely easy step-by-step by Alvin Alexander it features real code examples and updates. The post is called; Scala/Mill: Step 1, Creating a new Mill project. We have a Cats blog from Krzysztof Grajek, he covers things including, at...

Scaling out WebSockets, Streams, Communicating FSMs and Apache Pulsar! This talk was given by Andreas Koestler at the #SignifyScalaConf Horizontally scaling WebSockets is hard - how do you scale them across multiple servers? Publishing to a channel on one server is fine, provided all subscribers are connected to that one server. As soon as you have multiple servers, you need...

ZIO's ZStreams but specifically purely functional streams, Itamar Ravid gives his talk at the #SignifyScalaConf on the basis that he gets great joy out of them! Streams are a declarative, high-level abstraction for representing many types of programs. In particular, purely functional streams built on top of effect monads are a joy to use for constructing performant, resource...