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Diving straight into this week's Sunday Reads; our round-up of the past week's BEST blogs and articles... First up, My-Scala 0.22: Distributed tracing this blog by Chris Birchall at 47 degree's explores steaming responses now wrapped in F, reorganized modules and removed legacy-avro-decimal-compat modules. Next up a Java blog, How to Prototype a Web App with Django and Vue.j...

If there is one thing which the current situation has brought to the forefront of our minds, even more so than usual, is the importance of mental health. It has taught us that while physical health is important and that is something we often focus on, mental health is equally important. Next week is mental health awareness week but as Paul McGregor rightly says, 'we shouldn'...

Today our blog shout-out is for our Scala in the City Conference speaker Igal Tabachnik! If you haven't signed up for the virtual conference yet, you really really don't want to miss out, get your ticket here. In this talk Wix Engineering Tech Talk which Igal gave, he showed us a journey into Functional Programming that we will never forget. Journey to Functional Programming...

Sophie Hebdidge is first and foremost a Software Developer but her passion for bringing people into the tech world, seeing people engage with new technology and her own journey beginning her first business has led her to found Techniclarity. Techniclarity equips female founders with the tech skills they need to run their business. We planned to meet with Sophie for a coffee ...

Traditionally the May bank holiday is usually held on the first Monday of May - May Day! But this year the bank has been pushed back four days and that is because... Today is the 75th anniversary since VE Day. In 1945 it was announced in Britain that the war was over after almost six years at war. Although the two are very different, the current pandemic which we find oursel...

We hope everyone has been enjoying the bank holiday weekend, staying home and staying safe! This week we have a really great and varied round up of all the blog posts we have been loving! First and foremost is, of course, is one from the scala-lang blog and it is Important Suggestions in Scala 3 by Julien Richard-Foy it online the problem and how to fix it with code examples...

The Signify team started this week with a very motivational (and slightly shouty) morning! One of our Consultants Jordan Black, left his military career behind before joining us so he thought he would use this experience and put us through our paces. We can whole-heartedly say it was not a light fitness activity however it gave us great energy for the rest of the day and we ...

Yesterday the Signify team had the pleasure of meeting Michelle Flynn - a certified health coach but also can you believe it a recruiter and recruitment coach! As Michelle, her self asserts these two things do not conventionally go hand in hand. But with her understanding of the stresses of the recruitment world and her personal journey into finding more out about stress and...

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 growing. From Lightbend to Scala Days, we've dug deep to find these gems ...

Many people may see self-doubt as one of their weaknesses. Even when we are young we are taught that we shouldn't doubt our abilities, we need to believe in ourselves. BUT what if we can think of self-doubt in a more positive light? It all comes down to the way that you talk to yourself... that voice in your head is one which you listen to every day. Whether it is making you...