Chris Birchall
@cbirchall
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Principal engineer at @47deg. Previously @OVOTechTeam, @gdndevelopers, M3 and Infoscience. Author of Re-Engineering Legacy Software https://t.co/uS1WonxoVs
Bury St. Edmunds, UK
Joined April 2008
We're happy to say, 47 Degrees is now officially a part of @Xebia, a global I.T. consultancy! Our team will serve as a new pillar of Authority at Xebia, continuing our focus on Scala, Kotlin, and other Functional Programming services. The story:
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Quick, hire Amina before someone else snaps her up!
👋🏽 I am open to a new job as I've been made redundant! I'm a Scala engineer with 3 years experience, working remotely from London. I prefer functional programming roles, but open to others too✨ More here: https://t.co/VhfHi912KP Please feel free to get in touch! Thank you ❤️
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Interested in learning how to write an @ApacheSpark app using #Scala 3? The latest post from @cbirchall provides an awesome walkthrough of the process. Read it here: https://t.co/zOdFjiRMwz
@scala_lang
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“Policies in cats-retry are like shrimps”
In his new blog post, @grajo is having a closer look at retrying function calls in #Scala and giving an intro to cats-retry. Learn more: 🔗 https://t.co/HUtxwdErBR
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In our latest episode, we speak with the author of "Re-Engineering Legacy Software", @cbirchall of @47deg about: 🕵️ Spotting dead and zombie 🧟 code 🤔 Consciously taking on technical debt 📐 ...and when rewrites might be appropriate 🎧 Listen at: https://t.co/Rh6yeg7bsj
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Legacy software giving you grief? Re-Engineering Legacy Software shows you ways to breathe new life into legacy projects so you can maintain, improve, and scale them without fighting their limitations: https://t.co/4wZaxe3siH
@cbirchall #legacycode #softwareengineering
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Deal of the Day, Oct 9: Software Telemetry and select titles are on sale. Check them out: https://t.co/DcpsoLASzY
#legacycode #softwareengineering #programming #softwaredevelopment #Telemetry
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🚨🚨Foundations of Functional Programming in #Scala is complete 🚨🚨 The course includes 📺 20 hours of videos ✏️+100 exercises with answers 💬Design discussions, refactoring and IDE tips 🧑🤝🧑Access to a private Slack community with 1000+ Scala devs https://t.co/LMGRrzHcNC
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47 Degrees is hiring Scala engineers at all levels. Remote-friendly (but must be resident in UK/US/ES I think). DM me if you’d like more details.
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In this talk from #Scalabasse, Emily Misoni looks at the differences between initial encoding and final encoding in #Scala3. You can watch it here: https://t.co/hwkx80jLGy
@ScalaCon @47deg
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More information is arriving about the riots in Bury St Edmunds. Houses of royal and abbey officials have been attacked and the Abbey itself has seen demonstrations. Unconfirmed reports state that a monk has been killed. #reliving1381
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Dug out my old SLR and started photographing some of the wildlife in the garden https://t.co/WtCx9kUk0x
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My daughter can now say up, down, top and bottom. That’s 2/3 of the quarks!
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Look at what our fellows have built for #Guardian200 anniversary ▶️
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We're happy to announce Scalabase - a FREE conference for developers in the early stages of their #Scala journey this May 14th! Talks from: @DanielaSfregola, @noelmarkham, @frankie_hammond, @marji_sound, @AsjadSB, Daniel Oakey, & Emily Misoni! Register: https://t.co/SK3eByKQgf
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Really wanted to enjoy STOWAWAY. Trolley problem, with your own life at stake, in space, what’s not to like? But there were too many details that didn’t quite sit right or just plain didn’t make sense. Unable to suspend disbelief
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