Transcript: scale.bythebay.io: Luka Jacobowitz Interview

[Music] I'm Luca Luca woods and I worked for code centric in Germany as a software engineer key engineering issues okay that's that's a very broad question so key engineering issues I think like handling errors error handling is like one of the things that's one of the biggest problems because there's it's one thing to handle errors it's another thing to recover from errors we've been using sorry we've been using more and more FP and I think it really helps with with the general issue yeah that's a very good question so our work we use like at the moment we use a lot of different we lose we use the streaming mechanism on the front end at the back end and in the past we've had trouble to like scale that up to a different to a certain degree and basically we've introduced a new library and with streaming library and that that's gotten like rid of most of the issues but we're not doing like super crazy distributed computing yet I don't know maybe that's going to change [Music] okay that's a good question I've been saying that your every question well issues with scale usually come down to having some sort of state that you want to share across nodes so we're not using things like spark yet not not in production but I couldn't imagine like running some of that to do like a lot of the things we're currently doing like on on the individual like servers so yeah I don't know it's it's a tough question something like that okay functional programming I think has benefited as a lot like we use it we've introduced like function programming language from time to time a lot of different libraries but in the end what we got was a lot of more more reason reason ability about like our code we we have much stronger guarantees inside the type system so I think we did a lot of things that that basically allow us to say okay I'm I can feel good about changing something and if it compiles it works yeah [Music] maybe part of it I think it's like definitely the people because I'm I know a lot of people from like online I live in a smaller child in Germany and I don't often meet these all of these people that I interact with a lot and like open source projects and like the Gator shadow always things and like meeting them meeting them talking to them and in real life it's it's super cool I've had tons of fun