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Let's fight crime, CryptoCurrency Crime! Senior Software Engineer, Ben Simpson at Scala in the City told us all about the Scala methodologies they use to prevent crime within Blockchain. You have to watch this fascinating talk. An overview of Scala methodologies we use to detect and prevent criminal activities within the BlockChain. Ben Simpson is a Senior Software Engineer ...

It's finally time for Sunday Reads again! This week we have an array of really interesting content from inspiring contributors such as Vladimir Pavkin, Ólafur Páll Geirsson and more. So get settled and get stuck into another edition of our Signify Sunday reads. Sunday Reads Our first read is from Gabriel Volpe, FP Software Engineer. The post is called Split Monomorphisms. Ou...

Scala is an ever-increasingly popular Functional Programming language and with the US being one of the main countries to make use of it there are an array of exciting opportunities. Some of the most well-known and global technology companies such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Apple use Scala as their main back-end language meaning your spectrum of potential jobs becomes wider. As...

What is the future of blockchain development stacks? John De Goes argued that successful blockchain applications will not be built on blockchain platforms. Why is this? Have a look at the levels and success of blockchain in this article by John De Goes. 'In my recent post on blockchain myths, I argued that successful blockchain applications will not be built on blockchain pl...

Let's explore some property-based testing with ScalaCheck! Software Engineer, Nicolas A Perez gives us some great examples of different problems and solutions to them so you can constantly improve your code. This is more examples than talk. Add ScalaCheck to your build.sbt file 1 libraryDependencies += "org.scalacheck" %% "scalacheck" % "1.13.4" % "test" First Problem, FizzB...

How would you enrich code browsing, code review and code evolution? Software Engineer, Eugene Burmako had this task and found a way to scale semantic tools for Scala to millions of lines of code. The team managed to index their source code into an easily accessible service. Find out more from Eugene's talk at Scala Days 2018. How We Built Tools That Scale to Millions of Line...

Are you new to learning Scala? Or maybe you're thinking about stepping into the Scala world. Data Engineer Matt Hagy, went into Scala with high expectations and luckily it has lived up to them. So if you're considering the transition check out Matt's highlights and maybe you'll make that move to Scala. 'I’ve been learning Scala over the last two months for a future role. Pre...

Sick of leaky abstractions? Building for the web? You won't want to use anything else! What's this all about? Brad Urani at LambdaConf 2018 told us all about Ecto, Elixir's answer to functional-relational data access, check it out. Elixir's Ecto: Functional Relational Data Access Done Right Relational databases provide a challenge for functional programmers: they're inherent...

Mocking is an integral part of the testing process and one question that Software Engineer, Nicolas A Perez is often asked is how does he do mocking when writing tests for Scala applications? Would you like to know the answer to this question? Let's explore some thoughts with Nicolas in his interesting article on how to avoid mocks in ScalaTest. Many times people have asked ...

Looking for a talk where you can learn about both Haskell and Type Theory? At F(by) Conference, Vitaly Bragilevsky showed us how theory can be fruitful and exciting and that Haskell can be seen from many points of view. Haskell and Type Theory: Better Together Haskell can be seen from many points of view: you can build web services with it or study category theory. My favour...