scala.bythebay.io: Dustin Whitney Interview
Recording: scala.bythebay.io: Dustin Whitney Interview
you my name is Dustin Whitney I'm the CTO of policing analytics sorry scratch that project September my name's Dustin Whitney I'm the CTO of project September I saw a really great talk by joe armstrong who was a creator of Erlang about just Erlang and just kind of the growth of well basically how moore's law was sort of adapting to how it was still performing and i was basically you know through micro processors instead of just increased speed and he discussed how functional programming languages were a good way to start tackling the problems that multi-core processors brought and so i tried her laying it i just wasn't for me so i was a job a programmer and i don't even remember how I heard about Scala but that was what I kind of remember how I landed there basically they're not too far off because I get to make those decisions yeah I guess I like Scala on the back ends if you like I do like the JavaScript on the front end and my talk I discussed how I thought react native was a great solution for I don't know making it easier to build across form factors so your mobile devices your desktop devices all kind of within the same language so that's kind of why I like JavaScript on the front end as opposed to I don't know peer script or something like that something that compiles down to it or even intro a straight job on Android or Swift or whatever and then I'm really starting to find the service stuff appealing so the AWS lambda at mostly just because since I work at a startup just people as resources are such a tough thing to come by if you can offset a lot of the work that has to go into those things that's a another person you can you can find to do something else or even put money into non tech things that are super important like Stephen the marketing right if I can save an engineer then put somebody who bring some what people with a platform so yeah I like that we don't actually so we don't actually use AWS lambda yet we use Cooper Nettie's and we actually got some credits from Microsoft so we're running on Microsoft Azure and it's it's nice we have a DevOps guy who's fantastic his name's Graham tagger and we got credits for Amazon that expired the end of the air and we have credits from Microsoft that go longer than the year so Cooper Nettie's was a great choice for us because we could deploy on amazon which everybody knew very well and then while we figured out how as your worked which none of us had ever used before it would be easy to move from one cloud at the other and that's actually proving to be quite true so yeah ever since the type level guys became a thing I've been really getting into more of the functional programming side of Scala so John de goes is giving a talk i'm excited for and I'd like his writing to check out his blog I think Rob Norris is giving a talk I unfortunately missed miles talk because I was preparing for my own but moti had the type level guys I'm I'm very excited for a young boy is gonna be talking on Sunday he's like me nobody knows this but he actually invented play and this is back in the days when play was java and it like I basically made writing web sites in Java a tolerable thing it was unbelievable what he did and he started played to as well I'm really looking forward to sitting his talk cincy series friend she's floating all the way from Paris so yeah I don't know everybody else too [Music]