Scale By The Bay 2018: Sean Glover Interview
Recording: Scale By The Bay 2018: Sean Glover Interview
that's the my name is Shawn Glover I'm a principal engineer at at light Bend and I worked out of a office in in Toronto Canada I'm one of two employees that are currently in Toronto I have been the only one but light bends are very distributed company so we hail from lots of different cities across the world so I work on the fast data platform team at at light Bend and this is a commercial product it's sort of like a data stack offering like cloud era or Hortonworks specifically for fast data or building streaming platforms so we support a variety of stream processors including spark blank kafka streams and acta streams which is built by like Bend and my role on the team is to focus on on kafka and the Kafka ecosystem so I get involved in in the ecosystem I contribute to traffic itself reactive kafka alpaca katka streams ii and and other other tools in the space [Music] probably pipelines since I I deal with messaging systems all the time specifically Kafka we also have a commercial product that light bank call fast data pipelines which should be released in a new year and it's all about bringing together stream processors into one kind of cohesive streaming platform so I started working on that team as well so so the pipeline's track is is probably the most interest to me [Music] so my talks all about alpaca Kafka which is basically a ACTA streams connector for Kafka it's started as a software company called software and they'll started it and then the active team identified it as a really influential project and broaden into the akha github org so my talk is all about using alpaca Cockatoo as sort of the starting point of pipelines that you build for streaming systems and and also get into some of the guts of Kafka like consumer groups and transaction transactional exactly once semantics within Kafka and some other things and how to use alpaca Kafka to best use these features [Music] that's a good question not not quite sure I haven't had a good look at the schedule yet but basically anything programming models I'm really interested in all the tracks so I'll probably be spreading my time across all of them so I don't really have a good answer for that yeah so I've been a professional software engineer for about 12 years now started in the.net space and c-sharp space at least professionally and had the opportunity to switch to Scala at a nice kind of web startup that gave us a lot of options and different technologies to choose so this was about five years ago and I guess like eight years ago now and the first kind of gateway drug for Scala for me was a play web framework and I really just loved the diversity of language features available in scale is probably more than any other language that I know of and it's always a constant learning exercise to learn more about different things to do in Scala and and functional programming I don't consider myself a master by any means because there's there's so much you can you can learn and that's what keeps me coming back to the Skala and evangelizing it to my peers [Music] well I've heard him scale by the bay and Skala by the bay for a number of years a lot of Scala luminaries have come through and spoken at this conference so I I really want to sort of follow in their footsteps and and get involved here in some capacity so I was really happy to hear my my proposal was accepted so I could speak here and yeah it's a it's a great all-around conference for for Scala but but also building data platforms so you kind of get it's a good it's a good conference for me because I'm interested in pretty much everything that's that's being talked about here you