Scale By The Bay 2019: Kaoru Kohashigawa Interview
Recording: Scale By The Bay 2019: Kaoru Kohashigawa Interview
[Music] my name is Kanu cohosh Ogawa I work at tally I'm a senior platform engineer [Music] yeah this this is my first time speaking at scale by the way I actually heard this from Tabitha Tabitha came in last year she had really good feedback about the conference and so here we are I I really appreciated that I could have examples in my talk that I was able to use my cat analogies and so I was really excited about that but more importantly I think being able to share how we're using the available technologies out there to build a framework which is more accessible to engineers I think was really exciting for us to actually share that with the world and start getting some interest into what we're doing I multiply outside tally so with type bus it allowed us to spin up services relatively quickly with a lot of velocity but the current work that I'm working on right now is migrating our mono repo from SBT to basil so my main focus that the company is making our engineers more effective and develop and ship code faster so my work is important to tell you because it allows us to bring in more engineers and have less thrash with builds and employs and productivity as far as spinning up new services or figuring out how to communicate with these existing services and really allows us to basically build tools to make other people more effective [Music] yeah I was actually really looking forward to the it was something around the finding the needle in the haystack of the big data which was earlier this morning but unfortunately we were practicing for our speech so I couldn't get to actually sit down and see the see the talk but I'm looking forward to the seen it on the line and I can catch up then [Music] so we're aiming to double the size of our team and really what this means is really testing out my intuitions on focusing on the tools that we need to operate at a larger scale and not talking about customer wise but engineering wise this is I think a problem that maybe a lot of engineers don't really think about when you add more people your tooling becomes more more stressed and if you don't put a lot of investment in those toolings people or engineers in general will start becoming slower and slower and so adding more engineers doesn't fix the problem you have to fix the problem at the root and so the work that I'm doing now will hopefully prove that I made the right choices when our engineering team doubles so I'm excited to see how our engineering team grows but also how my work is contributing to the scale of an engineering level and then effectively allowing us to ship products more quickly and find a better market fit and ultimately help people be financially less stressed [Music] yeah I mean I met a handful of people I was somewhat nervous when I went up to talk because to be honest I'm relatively new to the Scala ecosystem and I was afraid that I was gonna get some really difficult question when I went up to speak but everyone was really kind even the difficult questions that I got offstage you know people were able to explain to me in a polite manner and so I really impressed by the welcoming Ness of the scala community so far I really appreciate all the talks around big data because I feel like that is where the industry is driving us we have to think about more and more data on how to manage them properly and get the most value of the out of the data so a lot of people that have been talking to you we're talking to people who are you know dealing with a lot of data and trying to find value out of that data and I feel like that's really interesting something that I would improve about the conference itself I think and and this is probably nitpick but the exhibitor space is kind of tight and so I would like to see a more open space where you know we can more freely walk around and have more conversations with people because I feel like not only our conferences valuable because we get to share ideas on stage but the value really comes when we start talking about it in having conversations the I feel like conferences are more valuable because we have conversations rather than having people stand in their soup boxes and talk about things we want to really start networking and building a community rather than having people just speak [Music]