Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill Interview
Recording: Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill Interview
[Music] I'm Brian Cantrell and the the CTO of a startup so Alexei Alexei zhh daughter and my daughter my youngest went to the same preschool so I was wearing a you know I wear my nerd shirts although this is actually a baseball shirt but the I was wearing a nerd shirt to a to a preschool picnic and Alexa QD said what do you know about ZFS Mike wouldn't know I know quite a bit about CFS and we got into conversations like wait a minute I know you I follow you online and then we then I realized I followed him online and I did he told me about scale by the bay and it kind of it's a very old school in that regard old school physical networking so I feel like oh my talks I was talking about Moore's Law the end of Moore's law introduced something called the rights law which looks at the unit cost of Technology over time and what is fun for me is to tie what's happening in the hardware substrate to what's happening in software I think that we tend to isolate ourselves and software from the underlying physicality but that physicality is actually not just important but essential so it's always fun to get software folks software engineers really thinking about and having empathy for the underlying Hardware substrate and there's some really interesting things that are happening there especially as Moore's law does come to an end and we look at what's next [Music] and there's a talk I'm really looking forward to tomorrow Evan Chen is giving a talk on on rust on his adventures with rust and the reason I'm excited to see it is because I saw Evan give a talk here last year and he was talking about all of this work he was doing to make the JVM run faster with Scala and it was great work but I was like man this guy really could use some rust so I had actually give it a talk on rust here and after the talk I said you know I'm not sure if you take a look at it but you should really consider rust and um you know it's always fun to be the messenger of a good message and yeah I think like a lot of people he'd heard about it it's not like I was breaking news to him but um you know he got really interested in it and when I saw the program this year I'm like oh that's great evan is like clearly saw something there and I spoke with him earlier and it's it's he sees a lot of the same things in it that I see and then a lot of people say I mean I'm really nothing special in this regard and a lot of people say this but it's really fun to have to be able to bring effectively someone else's technology to someone else acting really only as a conduit but then seeing that excitement in someone else is really gratifying so I cannot wait for his talk tomorrow so I'm looking for it so I just started a company I am which is very exciting and we are just completing a fund raise which is which is very exciting and looking forward to taking a big swing at a hard problem we're a very iconic plastic startup in many ways currently working out of my co-founders garage so cliched in some ways a kind of classic and others but I'm it's gonna be a hell of a year and I can't wait it's gonna be a lot of fun [Music] well one of things I love about scale by the bay this year is it's in the East Bay so I have I've lived in the East Bay for ten years Alexa lives in the East Bay used to live in San Francisco I lived in Silicon Valley and I look at San Francisco in the East Bay and I don't think my my progression there is anything special but I do think it's representative of a lot of technologists in the Bay Area it used to be long ago that the East Bay was kind of a no man's land for technology and in fact Hummer Winblad the VC firm their investment thesis back in the 80s was we invest in East Bay companies because Sandhill wouldn't touch them that's a lot has changed around that and what I see is a lot of technologists moving to these bay a lot of new company formation moving to these Bay's so to me it's exciting to have a attack event in Oakland it's a terrific demographic that it draws in I mean in there's something very pure about Scala folks not to put them all in one in kind of one bucket but there's something very beautiful about it and about functional folks and then using that as a kind of a pillar to pull in wider technologists what I'd like is for scale by the bay to get to get broader and get more more different kinds of technologists here and still kind of maintain some of that that regional focus it's the hallway track here is terrific and I think it's only going to get better [Music]