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One of the things we love most about sponsoring conferences is giving those in the community the chance to attend unreal functional programming events globally. Scale by the Bay is an iconic, independent developer conference so to give back to the FP world we gave 5 engineers the opportunity to attend, one of which was Software Engineer, Megan Lee. Megan kindly has sent alon...

We will soon be sitting in the Monzo offices getting ready to hear about all things Scala and we cannot wait! Monzo is an ingenious digital, mobile-only bank built for the way we live today so for our Scala in the City meet-up to be hosted by such an innovational tech company is mind-blowing. If you haven't signed up yet then make sure to grab your space, which you can do he...

Are you interested in working on OSS? At Scale by the Bay, Scala enthusiast and Senior Software Engineer, Kazuhiro Sera, gave us some expert tips on how to overcome the difficulty of maintaining Scala open source. Kazuhiro, helps us with finding your lifework project, providing cross builds and having effective CI builds. 'I got a chance to give a talk at Scale By The Bay 20...

Thinking that you’ll wait for the ‘New Year, New Me’ before starting a new job search? Well as your Signify Career Consultants we are here to advise you that there is a better option! Most people have assumptions that December is the worst time to look for a role but that is not true, from experience we know that it can actually be one of the best times to find the perfect p...

If you're processing a large amount of data the best computing engine is usually Apache Spark but when using Apache Spark do you know how to serve it? You can continue to use Spark but sometimes it's just not possible. In this talk given by Matthew Tovbin from Scale by the Bay he explores various approaches of how to allow model portability outside Spark. Making Spark ML Mod...

You've found your dream Engineering role, that's great! Now it's time for that all-important technical interview but don't worry, you can do this and we are here to help. We've pulled together a few tips and tricks on how to pass this interview with flying colours and we have even managed to find an excellent video from Life at Google where they demonstrate a mock interview ...

Many who use Scala will know that it has an exceptional streaming library called FS2, this incredible library incorporates the advantages of functional programming. In this article written by Daniel Sebban, Daniel starts by reviewing what problems FS2 solves and follows onto more including how to use Stream with a DB or any other IO. Have a read and broaden your library hori...

Scala is very flexible and a multi-paradigm programming language which allows you to use Mutable Data Structures and Immutable Data Structure. In this engaging read written by Wiem Zine El Abidine, Wiem guides us how to deal with immutable Data Structure and immutable collections when programming in the real world. Immutable State in Real World Imperative programs use Statem...

We are gutted that Scale by the Bay is over but of course, we are going to re-live every talk! We know that the Scala community is so successful because of the hard work from you all, every piece of work you do contributors to advancing Scala and this is what Senior Software Engineer, Seth Tisue's talk is all about. Seth discusses how to participate effectively in open-sourc...

It's Sunday Reads time again! We hope you're ready for another instalment of the latest Scala, Functional Programming and Haskell learns as we've pulled together all our favourites to keep you up to date with the tech world. So get comfy and get stuck in, happy reading. Don't forget it's the last Scala in the City of 2018! So if you haven't had a chance to make it along to a...