Posts authored by Chris Birchall:


Wednesday, 30 December 2015

How to add a form to a Play application
Chris Birchall

A step-by-step explanation of how to create a form in a Scala Play application, including explanations of some of the pitfalls you may encounter along the way

Programming   Scala  

Filling in a form

Friday, 17 July 2015

Hack day report: Using Amazon Machine Learning to predict trolling
Chris Birchall, Gideon Goldberg

On hack day we experimented with using Amazon Machine Learning to perform numerical regression analysis, allowing us to predict which articles should be watched closely by moderators for problematic comments.

Artificial intelligence (AI)   Hack day   Programming  

Human holding hands with an android

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Upgrading Elasticsearch: Content API’s dual stack strategy
Luke Taylor, Chris Birchall

Evaluation and explanation of process used to upgrade Elasticsearch with Route53 and a dual stack strategy on the Content API team at the Guardian.

Cloud computing   Computing   Content API   Elasticsearch   Internet   Programming  

Content API lego tower