Transcript: scala.bythebay.io: Zack Loebel-Begelman Interview

you my name is Zach Lobo Begelman I work for credit karma and i'm a senior software engineer on the data platform yeah it was the first JVM language I ever worked with I had a weird trajectory getting there I initially did a lot of work in c-sharp and then I wound up moving into PHP and then finally in Scala I really like the type system being able to be specific and then other times vague about what your type is I just feel like that can aid not only developer efficiency but it also makes for just kind of a more correct application if you're more explicit about the types in certain places where it matters yeah that's really what I like the most about it I'd say yeah I don't know if there really is an ideal stack I think it depends a lot on the problem you're trying to solve you have a lot of so many different levers and knobs to work with and especially in the industry today and with it probably would be the Java stack specifically the just the JVM stack there's so many tools available that are you know enterprise-ready just because it's been around for so long i certainly liked working with acha there's a lot of full-featured utilities that you can leverage with in that ecosystem and it provides for a very readable understandable code that scales really well though finagle also seems interesting it probably would be between those two depending on what I'm trying to optimize for the current stack yeah within the data platform group you'll find a whole mess of different things we have custom Java code we have a open source tool we use a decent amount of vodka and so it's mostly job in Scala and we even actually have some PHP hidden around there which let me tell you does not scale as well [Music] well one of my co-workers is actually giving a talk he's also he's talking about similarly what's the right tool for the job it's the numbers every Scala programmer should know and there's a lot of really cool information in that I've certainly seen the talk a few times just as the run throughs and I'm excited to see how it goes for the actual thing you might wind up pissing off a few people and that should be fun to watch their questions afterwards so I think it'll be a good time [Music]