Principal engineer at @47deg. Previously @OVOTechTeam, @gdndevelopers, M3 and Infoscience. Author of Re-Engineering Legacy Software manning.com/birchall/
Joined April 2008
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Chris Birchall retweeted
23 Aug 2022
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: 47deg.com/blog/47-degrees-jo…
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3 Aug 2022
Quick, hire Amina before someone else snaps her up!
3 Aug 2022
👋🏽 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: aminaadewusi.com/hire-me/
Please feel free to get in touch! Thank you ❤️
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26 Apr 2022
I’m likely to be as silent over there as I have been over here recently, but anyway... @cb372@mastodon.social
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Chris Birchall retweeted
8 Feb 2022
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: 47deg.com/blog/using-scala-3…
@scala_lang
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26 Nov 2021
“Policies in cats-retry are like shrimps”
25 Nov 2021
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:
🔗 buff.ly/3nPbF6Q
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Chris Birchall retweeted
22 Nov 2021
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: buff.ly/30JgKo6
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Chris Birchall retweeted
9 Oct 2021
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: mng.bz/WB51
@cbirchall #legacycode #softwareengineering
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Chris Birchall retweeted
9 Oct 2021
Deal of the Day, Oct 9: Software Telemetry and select titles are on sale. Check them out: mng.bz/WrEx
#legacycode #softwareengineering #programming #softwaredevelopment #Telemetry
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Chris Birchall retweeted
3 Sep 2021
🚨🚨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
fp-tower.com/courses/foundat…
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20 Jul 2021
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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Chris Birchall retweeted
15 Jun 2021
In this talk from #Scalabasse, Emily Misoni looks at the differences between initial encoding and final encoding in #Scala3.
You can watch it here: buff.ly/3pElaFx @ScalaCon @47deg
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Chris Birchall retweeted
14 Jun 2021
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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12 Jun 2021
Dug out my old SLR and started photographing some of the wildlife in the garden photos.app.goo.gl/TcrK3qBb5V…
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18 May 2021
My daughter can now say up, down, top and bottom. That’s 2/3 of the quarks!
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Chris Birchall retweeted
5 May 2021
Look at what our fellows have built for #Guardian200 anniversary ▶️ 1821-mode.theguardian.com/
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Chris Birchall retweeted
3 May 2021
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: buff.ly/3aSbK2G
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23 Apr 2021
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