Scale By The Bay 2018: Adil Akhter Interview
Recording: Scale By The Bay 2018: Adil Akhter Interview
my name is a dill and I work for this company called ing it's a global financial organization based in Amsterdam and I live in Amsterdam so right now I'm busy building a streaming data platform and the machine learning platform for engine so we are building a machine learning platform so that the rest of the company can use it to deploy machine learning model training and also monitoring that there are so many talks about the functional programming and distributed programming which are quite important for rest of the software engineer back in the company so definitely going to going to get the best practices from those talks and like for instance yesterday John digos was showing a house stream processing can be done in functional way so that's one of the interesting subject that I'm researching at this point so definitely that would be interesting for me yeah I'm a big fan of functional programming so there are many people who gave like awesome talks today not today yesterday on functional programming so definitely how to write program and encode it in a purely functional way is one of the one of the key aspects of for me to learn that's one thing and also we have seen several talks about machine learning platform so definitely they're very interesting inside their how they're building the machine learning platform in different other companies so I can I can get some knowledge from that and bring back to the tier 2 to 2 ng so I'm coming from Haskell background meaning that I used to do function programming before I came to Scala but one of the things that Scala gave us is the ability to write functional programming in an enterprise set up for instance if I take a look at all the different teams they're using Java mostly and their code is a highly imperative but Scala gives us this ability that hey you can choose to write functional programming in a in a company where they are building system for real use cases a meaning that okay Scala give getting gave us this opportunity to write code in a functional way in industry setup that's one in the next 15 years I see that the functional programming will be a mainstream so I don't need to talk about functional programming anymore it's just there it's out there and you're doing it and then as simple as that people if I was here two years back that time the talk were with certain instructions but this year the talk were with more difficult abstractions I mean so these abstractions are getting normal and normal everyday so people know much more about functional programming now compared to what they used to know ten years back at least in this cup of the rain it's a community the interesting community you you came here you learn more about how people are doing stuff and other companies like the Twitter Linkedin all other cutting edge company how they're building stuff that's the most important part there and the discussions that's happening especially while grabbing food that's the most important interesting and fun part for me the talks I mean you can you can go to different conferences to learn more about those but the the community feeling is the most important part you