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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...

As we enter the first week in May we are here with your weekly update on the programming world, as our Sunday Reads features all our favourite programming blogs from the past week! Diving straight in with a quick little read for you this Sunday; Code Review Chopped Up by Patryk Studniak as he says, 'Software architecture supposes to reflect business logic and is the most cru...

Yesterday we completed a virtual relay... somebody from the Signify team, including the London, Los Angeles and Texas offices, was running at all times throughout the working day! We kicked the relay run off at 8.45am sharp and passed the virtual baton all day, finishing at 6.45pm, we ran for a TOTAL of 9 HOURS across 2 CONTINENTS! We encountered sunshine, heavy rain, wind a...

If you know how to attack your systems then you have more knowledge on how to secure them and this is the mindset of Cybersecurity Pro Matt Brunt. At GOTO 2019 Conference, Matt Brunt gave us a session on how to think like a hacker and how that will help us keep our systems much more secure. Think like a Hacker Much in the same way that to secure a house it helps to know how ...

Are you a gaming developer who wants to become more advanced? Or have you got no experience developing games but what like to try something new? While we are all getting bored in the house why not try something new? You could learn a new skill... Unity Technologies makes a popular gaming engine and offers instructional content to developers for building games using the compa...

Yes, it's true, we ventured into the world of Haskell for our very first Haskell in the City meet-up (virtually of course)! Thank you to everyone who jumped online to participate and we hope you enjoyed the content. Another massive thank you to both our speakers Simon Hafner, Functional Compiler Engineer and Michael Snoyman, Vice President Of Engineering, both of your talks ...

Are you worried that by starting a new role you won't be as embedded into the team? Want to find out what some of our clients are doing to ensure that you still get an amazing welcome into the company? Want to find out why now is as good of a time to be looking for a new role or why now is as good of a time to be expanding your team as ever..? We know now is a challenging ti...

We've just had our first Haskell in the City virtual meet-up and it was a success! One request from a viewer was for more Haskell beginner content to be shared within the community so we have found an awesome Tech Talk from Google on 'Haskell 101'. Let's learn the basics. Haskell 101 Google TechTalks