Transcript: Scale By The Bay 2018: Brett Koonce Interview

my name is Britt Koontz I'm the CTO of Cork works a mobile app consulting company I live here in San Francisco where we have offices in Columbia Missouri we work on a bunch of different apps for various clients will say one of the biggest things they like about mobile programming is sort of like seeing people use stuff in a real world so it's always cool to me to wander around the city and see somebody actually using one of my apps and like feel like you know I've somehow made their day ever so slightly better functional programming is interesting to me in that like I've been doing more and more of it the last you know five years or so but I would say probably just the the data track has been the most interesting one to me because I've seen a lot of different different approaches to similar problems and so it's given me some new ideas for how to tackle some stuff I've been dealing with I did a demo of I did a demo of like how to achieve the current state of the art and like image recognition for machine learning so stuff like that is basically you know if you think I think that machine I'm sorry functional programming is starting to become a larger part of the machine learning stack and so I think that's definitely where things are going in the future well me I'm personally too many best practices implies like knowing the right way to do things I'm bad about sort of bashing things out and trying to get something that works but I always enjoy seeing how other people tackle the problems because often times that's what gives me the little ideas I can use to apply to my own problems I've not done a ton of Scala myself personally I worked on a large video streaming project a year ago where we rewrote all the back end in the Scala to improve performance that was like my first introduction in the programming language but functional program in general I've you know I grew up in like the old school imperative you know basic programming style world will say and so I've been trying to incorporate more and more functional ideas into my my programming style and I think definitely like it's the future of these things because if you can sort of explain your problem in a way that the computer can then use all of its powers to expand large clusters and things like that I know a few people here so like Alexi and Chris that's always good to bump into them I saw some cool new stuff for like quantum computing and stuff like that I think the stuff is coming on the radar now or maybe in a few years it's gonna be a big deal so it's always cool to see like new and emerging ideas and trends before they're actually become you know mainstream so to speak you