Scale By The Bay 2018: Jakob Odersky Interview
Recording: Scale By The Bay 2018: Jakob Odersky Interview
my name is Jacob radowski I'm actually my I'm currently not working for any company I live here in San Francisco and but I've been working on swith with Scala for about nine years now okay so I'll say what we I used to build at my previous company we were working on a treatment matching pipeline for cancer patients essentially the problem we're trying to solve was that there are many patients who have some kind of cancer and there are more treatments than ever available the problem though is that no single doctor no single human can know about all of them so what we were building was a matching system talking with Pharma with hospitals gathering a database of treatments and then matching patients with that I don't know how like the the architecture ones are often I found some of the most insightful ones kind of best practices I would share well I think the essential part especially if you're in the Scala ecosystem is to try to not use all the features that you can try to keep it as simple as possible start start out basic don't use advanced features when you do see them then of course use them but yeah keep it simple is I would say my best practice what am i moving to I mean I think it's always important to stay up-to-date to with the latest developments the latest new open source projects happening and this is I think at a conference is the best time to find out about these and I hope to learn more about new projects that can solve my daily problems that's a funny question so initially I did not actually want to be your programmer at all when I was 14 I got my first laptop I went to my dad and said hey I know you do this programming stuff can you teach me some and he showed me this program I think we built like a hangman on the command line and I was like yeah it's kind of boring like what am I going to show my friends then no one's going to understand it so what I did later on is I went to Visual Basic and built things because this is what you did at the time you would you could build a program distribute it with your friends and everybody Wow I think nowadays you can do these things pretty nicely in JavaScript so if it this would happen now I'd probably move to JavaScript it's only much later that I kind of like rediscovered Scala and I I mean it was helpful that I always had a primary source I could ask questions so in that regard I don't know I think I just moved to Scala mostly because it was the the easiest for me to learn in the next year's I mean I don't know the exact future but I am going to stick with programming Scala on a daily basis probably yeah yeah my favorite things I really like the community here I've had the scale by the bay especially at the the conferences when you get to meet everyone not only from the bay it's just always always a blast I've had great conversations in the hallways after the conference's is always great I just yeah my favorite part is just the interactions between people everyone is open to learning to discussing things there's no no one is arrogant things like that it's just a great community