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In this talk, at Functional Scala by Bas Geerdink he sets the scene by examining Fast Data Use Cases and then moves on to discuss Spark and Kafka integration. This talk was given by Bas Geerdink at Functional Scala.

As January comes to a close we are back with another Signify Sunday Reads... First up we have a very interesting article from Artur Skowroński his article helpfully summarises Thought Works quarterly report: Technology Radar which he says is a highly opinionated view on what is happening in the digital business. In his article: I read ThoughtWorks Technology Radar vol.21 so ...

We love listening to talks - its a great and easy way to intake the knowledge from people who really know what they are talking about! First up we have one recommended by one of you guys... it's Martin Odersky's keynote speech at Scala Days 'A Tour of Scala 3' This talk was given by Martin Odersky at Scala Days. This talk is perfect if you want something very quick but uplif...

In his talk at Functional Scala, Pierre Ricadat explains why he decided to create such a library and then takes us on the journey he went through when designing the GraphQL Library. This talk was given by Pierre Ricadat at Functional Scala.

Piotr Golebiewski presented us with a simple title for his talk; Functional Scala - the reason we were all there and his talk didn't disappoint... He moving through the topics; growing complexity, modularity in ZIO, testing modules, pros and cons and he finishes looking forward to the future of Functional Scala, asking the question can we do better? This talk was given by Pi...

Here at Signify we love to celebrate our successes and are really proud of the individual development of everyone in our team. So we have decided to give you a little insight into different team members' journey's since joining the Signify family, as they really do put the meaning into our ethos 'Be Significant'. This week we look at Jack's journey with us, from a consultant...

Learn New Skills Take part in webinars; webinars are a great way to enhance your skills and the best part is you can literally do them from your office - or your living room... with a beer in hand. Attend workshops, we regularly hold Scala workshops for Engineers to develop their Scala skills, workshops like these are a great way to learn a specific skill efficiently but gui...

Itamar Ravid defines a functional stream as a description of something from which elements can be pulled. He says that when we pull an element we are evaluating an effect - watch his talk at Functional Scala to find out more about Modern Data-Driven Applications. This talk was given by Itamar Ravid at Functional Scala.

Jon Pretty was the keynotes speaker at Functional Scala this year and he decided to base his talk around, the state of Scala, what it has been used as and what it should be used as. He called the talk Unleash Your Fury and after outlining some misconceptions about Scala, he finished on how excited he was for the future of Scala. This talk was given by Jon Pretty at Functiona...

Pavel Shirshov and Kai gave their talk at Functional Scala on; Hyperpragmatic pure FP testing with distage-testkit - distage is a Dependency Injection mechanism for Scala, it could be called a module system for Scala but with an automatic garbage-collecting solar. Pavel began by explaining why some tests are useful and some are not and then Kai goes into more detail about th...