Scale By The Bay 2019: Adelbert Chang Interview
Recording: Scale By The Bay 2019: Adelbert Chang Interview
[Music] my name is Adelbert chang i am an AI engineer at Target and I'm on the inventory positioning and control team doing deployment infrastructure and cashing systems so besides the 2015 edition I believe I've attended every single scale by tibay as well as the Scala would back when I was called Scala symposium before the first scale Scala by obeying 2014 so this was me at the sixth iteration of this conference I initially heard about Scala symposium through Twitter back when I was first getting into Scala and sort of figuring out what conferences I could go to I because I live in a Bay Area I look for once network closeby and scholars opposing him back in 2013 I believe was in Santa Clara which is pretty close to where I live so that's the one I attended and Here I am today and a favorite part about my talk is even though we live and we like to talk about we're living in this new modern world where you have a lot of new exciting technologies I believe a lot of the principles of systems we've designed 3040 years ago and most notably the internet other principles and those designs still hold today and sometimes because they're so old or because they're not taught maybe I'm on a curriculum people tend to not know about them as much or a lose sight of them and my goal with my talk was to sort of bring these to light and sort of get people thinking about modern systems along a different axis that maybe they might see at conferences or I meet ups or at blog posts [Music] so talks I was really excited about today was the keynote by Heather Miller about sort of the tides are shifting and how the software industry is getting new engineers and also filling this rapid this rapid influx of like the need for more software engineers this or and sort of how maybe in the past we relied on traditional CS curriculums but now we have these coding boot camps we have people who are studying who are coming from abroad and how sort of the technician needs to change to accommodate that to keep up with the growth another really good talk I saw was scaling the scala community it was a talk on sort of diversity and inclusivity initiatives in the scala community and and other communities in general that was talked about a Fasching that was really good talking really important one I was glad to see a lot of people attend and ask questions and become more cognizant of that and theirs is to talk tomorrow by Paul Xu Sano on unison which is his programming languages for building distributed and cloud systems and I'm hoping to attend it and really excited about and I've been following it for the past couple years it was really cool to see it go from maybe like the initial blog post to an actual system today that he came out demo on on stage at a conference like scale [Music] so one of the goals of my talk was to sort of motivate and bring to light that there are very useful insights in say to academic research community because of maybe how fast industry is growing or because there's a lot of maybe on explore territory in industry we can sometimes forget that there is a whole other aspect of computer science and of systems and of buildings building applications and I think between my talk and Heather's talk and say talks like unison Network they're more on the exploratory side I do hope to see that in the coming year or five years that there's more collaboration between academic academic and industry my favorite part about scale by the bay especially having attended for the past couple years is how its evolved from back being scholar focused who may be straddling the fence between Scala and systems so personally for me because while I am very or I was very interested in Scala the programming language I also have interest outside especially in systems and also because of what I do at my job I also have an interest in and assist in data related things like machine learning artificial intelligence and so a conference like stay open I before all three of these tracks are provided sort of selfishly for me accommodates me very well because I can all three tracks are have all relevant to me and I can sort of pick the talks that I am interested into that have does a lot of breadth in the conference essentially as far as things that can be improved I think while scale by debate does have efforts to make things more diverse and to help get under-represented people here and and for instance the keynote was had a real I do see some sort of female speakers it would be I think there's always work to more work can be done I think the fact that Alexia is trying is very good I think there's always room for improvement and any efforts towards that direction it will always be good [Music]