scala.bythebay.io: Adelbert Chang Interview

Recording: scala.bythebay.io: Adelbert Chang Interview

you uh uber Cheng a box Inc senior software engineer so one of my college friends Jared told me about Scala when I was trying to build a distributed graph processing framework for research lab at workman and so I actually got in to scala through acha acha actor stuff and since then I slowly I started poking into libraries like Scala Zed and got more and more in functional programming a lot of it was a self-study reading a lot of books asking a lot of questions on IRC people were really helpful I had one class in university that used it but most of my learning was through the yourself self study so I'm big fan of I guess a lot of projects under the type of the project so these will be libraries like set the water considered in the most useful and fundamental is a cat library or a library like Scala said and then we have depending on what I need to do do be four databases hdb 4s for any sort of web stuff schodack was a great library to use for working with binaries things at work we we haven't depended on cats yet but I expect that to change really soon we do use codec with with great success it's a really great library and then I'm in the process of hopefully moving some of our our service stuff to http for us [Music] i'm looking forward to John's talk that's coming up next on strange brew co free Rob's going to give a really interesting talk on on taking something sort of like a mundane like database programming and how you make that more fun and more enjoyable and more principled Greg file is going to give a good talk on recursion schemes and I think Michael focus is giving a talk on this new a new version of what used to be called scholars that streams is now called FS 2 or functional streams for Scala and I think that'll be really interesting since we're looking to use that at box as well you