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As a start-up, there are so many learnings along the way but this is what makes a business great! At Scala in the City, Head of Engineering, Jendrik Poloczek shared the hard requirements the engineering team of TokenAnalyst have to meet and how they achieve this. If Blockchain is your biggest interest then check this out! We're a London based startup and we track everything ...

As the New Year approaches many people, use this time of year to set themselves some goals. By reflecting on what happened in the past year and having a look at what they might want to change. We have written a simple step by step guide on how to best prepare yourself to make them happen. A good way to organise your thoughts is to write down three things that you do that you...

Let's formalize the specification of semantic contracts as statements of predicate logic! Why? Because we can do better! At Scale by the Bay, president of Artima, Inc. Bill Venners showed us how we can improve and how the new features of ScalaTest support his approach. Scala ensures that types are used consistently with their declaration, but checks only the name and structu...

Amsterdam is a beautiful city with a relaxed and easy-going atmosphere where you can fully expect a positive work-life balance. Therefore, why wouldn’t you want to take up a new opportunity where you can welcome culture and creativity into your daily lifestyle. However, whether you’re currently looking to make the decision to relocate to The Netherlands or you already live t...

It's the festive period and a time for all our favourite things so we are looking back at all our favourite Martin Odersky talks! As the creator of Scala, Martin is the reason Signify Technology exists so we couldn't be more grateful for his hard work. Created in 2003, Scala has become the prefered language for thousands of developers and the community is continuously growin...

Serverless promises to make it easier to build and deploy applications but it presents a new set of challenges. In his talk at Scale by the Bay, Ryan Knight suggests ways in which you can overcome these challenges when working with serverless architectures. The challenges that serverless presents often come at a high cost and make it difficult to use Serverless as a more eff...

We are lucky to have some amazing clients that we work with to place the perfect people in the perfect Tech roles. So below we have put together a bit about what it might be like to work at some of the ones we work with the most. ITV ITV is a household name and has created 60 years of Tv history. Therefore their culture and the structure of the business is well-developed, ro...

There are many benefits to working in tech, in the height of the digital age, technologies are constantly evolving and developing. This means it doesn't seem like there will be a lack of new things to develop or refine any time soon. Not to mention tech is now one of the highest paying sectors in the Uk and tech jobs in big companies offer lots of perks. But the fact that te...

Signify is proud to say that we've achieved a lot over the last 12 months but it's all due to the support from our clients, candidates and the Scala community, thank you for helping us accomplish so many of our goals! So we wanted to share with you, just a few, of the successes you've been part of this year... Supporting Scala conferences and meet-ups have once again been of...

Delta Lake is an open-source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes. In his talk at Scale by the Bay, Michael Paul Armbrust discusses Delta Lake and how it improves open source reliability and quality. Delta Lake offers ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and unifies streaming and batch data processing. It runs on top of your existing data lake and is...