Transcript: Scale By The Bay 2019: Oscar Boykin Interview

[Music] my name's Oscar Boykin I work at stripe I'm a machine learning infrastructure engineer [Music] this is not my first time speaking in Scala by the bay scale by the bay you can tell by just my slip I've been doing it for a few years it used to be go under a different name I first spoke a few years ago when I was working at Twitter Twitter had it has a close relationship because of Scala interests and a lot of that is a big overlap with the community that's still here my favorite part of the talk is just kind of like I think we're seeing early days of how machine learning is going to be you know run how it's going to be scored how are people going to like use this and build it into their production systems so I think people who kind of my talk will be able to learn a little bit about a new format called onyx which is an intermediate representation for different machine learning models we're not really there yet of a world of like Java class files or whatever for machine learning but onyx is kind of like trying to take us a little bit in that direction so it'll be interesting to see in the next couple of years if onyx is going to be a standard that really catches on but in any case people can learn about like what it's all about yeah so the fact of the matter is even though a lot of people here at stripe like sorry a lot of people here at the scale by the bay like like Scala from machine learning Python is where everyone's using Python for the most part to train their machine learning models but on the server side at stripe we don't really have any Python services so we were really struggling with this question of how can we get deep learning models out there how can we give more more models for more applications and continue to use our existing Scala infrastructure so my work will talk about a library that we wrote that allowed us to take these models or train in Python but would score them and run them on our existing java virtual machine based written in scala systems [Music] yeah well Brian Cantrell's talk was really amazing on just you know Moore's law rights law amazing talk everyone worse worth the price of admission to scale by the bay alone so I highly recommend everyone take a look at that one oh but there are so many really good talks it's hard to pick yeah that's right pick a few it's a great conference always good well I'm pretty I don't know if it's gonna be over the next year I like a you know been interested in functional programming for a long time but we're getting closer to the next release of Scala Scala 3 coming out and it has a lot of really exciting features you know improves the language in a lot of ways simplifies it in many ways but also adds some nice power add some opportunities for writing very fast code some optimization so I'm pretty excited about that being something that more people can try to play with and hopefully that we can you know eventually start including in our work my favorite part I mean it's uh I think it's well it's kind of awkward too because scale by the way used to be Scala by the bay and still I would imagine more than two-thirds of the attendees have some interest in Scala or domains where Scala has been you know successful data machine learning things like this so there is this ambition for it to be you know about scalability but I think it's also still very much related to Scala so I like coming and saying I think it's really the best Scala conference on the west coast I really like coming to see a lot of the people Twitter is in in San Francisco and so they use a lot of scholarly I get I used to work at Twitter I get to see a lot of my friends who were Twitter engineers there's a lot of them come so it's a great chance to connect with the community great venues usually almost always a great event [Music]