scala.bythebay.io: Timothy Perrett Interview

Recording: scala.bythebay.io: Timothy Perrett Interview

you some timothy parrot structural engineering at verizon lab yep I've been doing a scholar for about about 10 years so I was one of the early commanders to lift project and so going way back when it was a web framework that that was at one point very popular and and subsequently I've been doing all sorts of different things in the scholar community since then and now I mainly focus on purely functional programming in Scala and yeah and we've been building a big team a verizon to do that too and just having a blast the last sort of four years doing that and uh yeah so I think probably unlike many people i think we're probably fairly close to where we are from an ideal stack perspective we have probably probably 85 to 90 percent scholar stack and so we have a pretty more homogeneous environment and then we have a lot of native code to we our system is very very large if you know one of the larger larger teams in the community to will so the largest user of spt in the world so it's a it's fairly close to where i would probably want it to be and obviously in a large company you know being a polyglot system is kind of inevitable and and I think that's fine so from my team's perspective but primarily focused on building systems and services that can support everyone else to deliver products so I think we're probably pretty pretty close to where we would like to be like I said most of the time most were infrastructure systems are written in purely functional for purely functional manner and a lot of our distributed systems are too and yeah I mean I think we're pretty lucky we have we have a we have a team of excellent engineers and I have some of the most renowned engineers in the scholar community and yeah I think we've been super lucky [Music] probably a rod Norris yeah I really really respect what what rob has to say and yeah you think he's a super interesting super interesting guy and is really good speaker