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Wow! What an evening, thank you so much to everyone who made the journey out to the Sky Offices on Thursday night, we are still so amazed by not only how incredible the offices are but how great both of our speakers were. We are thrilled that we could offer you all the opportunity to see where the team at Sky spend their days, with a cinema room and on-site bar we definitely...

We bring you our third instalment for October 2018, of our suggested ‘Sunday Reads’. This week we share some of our best-loved Scala, Haskell & FP learns from around the internet. Thank you again to everyone who came along to Scala in the City at the Sky offices, with an exclusive talk from John De Goes created specifically for Scala in the City as well as hearing from Lawre...

Image credit Scala Days If you headed along to New York for Scala Days this year you will know how many great talks there were to be seen including this one from Noel Welsh on Differentiable Functional Programming. If you missed it, catch up here as it's an amazing learn! Differentiable Functional Programming What do deep learning and functional programming have in common? I...

Tapad Engineering recently attended the Scalawave conference in Poland, if you didn't manage to make it then don't worry as you can catch up on all you need to know here in this Tapad Takeaways on the conference. 'Last week we had the pleasure of visiting the historic city of Gdańsk to attend the third edition of Scalawave, where Scala enthusiasts from the Baltic Region and ...

We love this Scala Snacks series written by Daniel Tattan-Birch, Software Engineer at Football Radar. These articles will definitely come in handy so read up and fill you Scala hunger! 'This one will actually be a snack, I promise. Let’s paint a picture. We’ve got a DTO containing some state. Let’s make it about football this time, a 'Goals' class. case class Goals(value: In...

Did you make it to KotlinConf 2018? There were so many amazing speakers to see and workshops to take part in. Check out this talk given by Functional Programmer Raúl Raja on Functional Programming in Kotlin with Arrow where he helps us learn the fundamentals of Typed Functional Programming. Functional Programming in Kotlin with Arrow by Raúl Raja at KotlinConf 2018 In this t...

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...

Happy Thursday! Today's learn comes from this article written by Oliver J. White at Lightbend on the interesting webinar given by VP of Fast Data Engineering at Lightbend, Dean Wampler. Akka Streams and Kafta Streams are the subject of this webinar and where Microservices meet Fast Data. Check it out! Akka Streams And Kafka Streams: Where Microservices Meet Fast Data from Li...

It's not long now until the start of Lambda World 2018 and we can't wait to attend, see lots of familiar faces and hopefully some new ones! Let us know if you'll be there and make sure to say hey and grab some Scala swag. In the meantime check out this great talk given by Miles Sabin, Typelevel Co-Founder and Principal Engineer, on Typelevel Scala Rebooted from Lambda World ...

We are thrilled to share this article written by Developer Severin Perez exclusively for Signify! This is a great introduction to Functional Programming 'From Objects to Functions', Severin looks at how we can take what we learned from the OOP solutions and convert them to alternate FP solutions in Clojure. Happy learning! From Objects to Functions An Introduction to Functio...