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We know that as a company you want to invest in your teams but it's not always that easy! If you're nodding your head in agreement, keep reading because we think you might like this... At Signify we love to give engineers the opportunity to further their skills by attending global conferences because it is really one of the best ways to learn. So what would be better than Si...

We have part two of the series for you! Written by Stephen Lazaro this blog series on 'Using Applicative Style to Increase Compositionality' has so far been very helpful in looking at Functional Programmings applicative style. We now follow onto how we can achieve flexible, maintainable, and composable code to wrap a fairly traditional Java library API. ' Photo by Tomas Sobe...

It's always great to find out the different ways Developers use functional programming as it helps to develop your skills and knowledge. In this article written by Stephen Lazaro, he helps us to examine functional programming's applicative style that they use at Earnest to increase compositionality allowing them to simplify responsibilities, and provide greater extensibility...

Dive into Pharo and Squeak with Software Developer, Aditya Siram. What is this? It's state of the art highly graphical, explorable and fully programmable Smalltalk environments focusing on how well it integrates with the surrounding environment and why we should be stealing the ideas and design for functional programming! What FP can learn from Smalltalk I love functional pr...

Where should you focus first on Machine Learning Infrastructure? At Scale by the Bay, Head of Data Science, Nick Handel shows us where to start with and all about the foundation you need for a strong machine learning system. Machine Learning Infrastructure at an Early Stage Good machine learning is built on infrastructure but many startups don't have the bandwidth or resourc...

Happy Sunday! We hope you've had a great week and we're ready to help you top it off with a collection of functional programming reads. Sunday Reads Our first post is from Adam Warski, CTO of SoftwareMill. This post is called Websockets in Scala using sttp. Our second read is from Alexandre Archambault and Sébastien Doeraene. This post is called Better Management Of Transiti...

No matter the size of your data, if you need to import it then your system must be robust. At Elixir Conference, Developer, Laszlo Bacsi told us the story of how he built a data pipeline to process billions of data and they learnt quite a few lessons along the way! It doesn't matter if you have "big data" or "small data" if you need to import and process it in near realtime ...

Take a walk through the microservices pattern with Software Developer, Fran Perez. At Scala IO France, Fran demonstrated how we can leverage Akka and Cassandra to allow us to achieve scalable microservices through proper data partitioning. Enjoy the journey! The three paths of Scaling with Akka This talk consists of a comprehensive walkthrough of the microservices pattern wi...

How do you effectively update the read model with Akka Persistence? In this post by Software Journeyman, Andrzej Ludwikowski looks at how choosing the right strategy highly depends on your domain and underlying database for storing events and why the solution should be scalable for each read model independently. 'Akka Persistence is a pretty nice Event Sourcing implementatio...

How can you time-travel your data? What if this data grows in size? And what if you want to compact it? There are so many questions but the answers are here. At Scala in the City, Jon Pither and Jeremy Taylor introduced us to Crux an awesome database which will help you with all these concerns! Introducing Crux - Bitemporality & Databases So you love immutability and want to...