scala.bythebay.io: Hiral Patel Interview
Recording: scala.bythebay.io: Hiral Patel Interview
you my name is hiral patel i work at yahoo for the surgeon native ads platform i'm a senior principal architect and director of engineering there sure that's a that's a funny story actually back in 2010 i used to work at a start-up on the first floor of the twitter building and one of my engineers on the team was always talking about how twitter user scala and coming from the Java world I didn't really care at the time over time he convinced me to just take a look at it and we built off a REST API using Scala and if more or less if it wasn't for him I would have never been introduced to scala and and more or less if it wasn't for Twitter he would have never cared about Scott he was a big fan of Twitter and so that's how I got introduced to it it took me a long time to start using Scala like most Scala programmers do because I came from a Java world so mutable state normal things so I wrote a lot of my java Scala code for the first year like I would write my java code I didn't really care to use folds or maps or flat map so mostly the only thing I really like to use was options you know not having to deal with nulls was like the best thing ever right so use options everywhere and that alone solved you know a lot of my problems right so I didn't how to do anything and so over the next two years I started attending these Scala conferences a lot of them actually but I set up by Aleksei in the bay and that's how I got more into the functional aspects of Scala and then also the distributed systems world using akka and and and and and the frameworks like play framework and then lift that's so that's my journey through three Scott through scholar so far the ideal stack would probably be for my use case for the rest api is we have would probably be play framework app or a finagle api what we currently have is more or less a Java servlet implementation using spring framework right and although we use most of our scholar libraries that we built in spring it would be nice to actually just use Scala everywhere I'm looking forward to actually chatting with peter from cake solutions i've been following his scala updates blog for a long time before i think he and he took took it over and i think that's probably been my single source of information about all the new scala projects and all the updates in the scholar world for a long time now i'm not a huge fan or to our user of Twitter so I get most of my updates from their blog and so it's good to see him here and then talk to him and hear about what things that they're working on [Music] you