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Thank you so much to everyone who joined us at the Lightbend edition of Scala in the City last night! It was another great turn-out and each month we are left wondering how we can top the last... Lightbend is a tech company creating real-time streaming applicaations and improving infrastructure efficiency using their open source which includes Akka, Scala and Play Framework....

Tomas Petricek says sometimes we think when something is really hard the obvious answer is to create our own library... however this is not always the correct answer. In his talk Designing Composable Functional Libraries Not Just For Visualization, at Lambda Days he gives live examples of creating and updating code. This talk was given by Tomas Petricek at Lambda Days.

Leeds has grown from a small market town to become one of the biggest cities in the UK. It is considered as one of the UK's most successful business, legal and financial hubs. Although the city is a vibrant and modern metropolitan, with great night life, shopping qurters and rich industrial history it is also based in Yorkshire, in the north of England, meaning it is surroun...

A prime language for tinkering with data that software developers, data engineers and data scientists choose. Scala is perfect for big projects, as it’s really productive. It enables developers to reduce the size of the source code by a factor of at least 2 or 3 compared to Java. Whether you’re already professionally coding with Scala or you’re just looking to pick up some b...

In this talk, at Lambda Days, Raphael Sousa Santos discusses his own experience buildinf programming synthesizers live in the OCaml prograamming language; he moves through the topics of motivation, building synthesizers with OCaml, controlling synthesizers through concurrent processes and what might be next. This talk was given by Raphael Sousa Santos at Lambda Days.

Today is Shrove Tuesday - also known as Pancake Day! We held a special breakfast of homemade pancakes and all the toppings, all of the ingredients and toppings used were Fairtrade where they could be, to also celebrate the begining of Fairtrade fortnight. Fairtrade fortnight is where for two weeks each year thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come to...

When it comes to our live roles our consultants know them inside out and are here to advise you on anything you might need to know, they will help you through the interview process and can even give feedback on your portfolio outside of a specific role. In this video Senior Consultants Alex and Chloe run through a couple of the many live Scala roles they have in London right...

This talk, given by Andrew Lelechenko at Lambda Days, discusses the use of Haskell for mathematical libraries; opposed to scientific libraries which has been described as 'a lump of Fortran-ish code with an API from 1970s.' Andrew is a software developer from London with a strong background in mathematics and computer science. After receiving his PhD degree, he went into ind...

On the 16th and 17th June we will be attending the Women of Silicon Roundabout event at the Excel Centre in London. The event is a celebration of the successes and innovations being engineered by women from across the tech sector and it is one of the biggest in Europe! So we thought it would be nice to collaborate with some brands outside of the tech sector who are also all ...

This keynote was given by Carl Seger at Lambda Days. He focuses on functional programming for hardware design, by giving a brief history, running through some challenges and code. This talk was given by Carl Seger at Lambda Days.