scale.bythebay.io: Chris Rupley Interview
Recording: scale.bythebay.io: Chris Rupley Interview
[Music] my name is Chris Ruby I'm a data scientist at Salesforce Keon and engineering issues I say the one of the biggest one that comes up is integration Salesforce is a pretty diverse company that's growing on a lot of acquisitions so getting all those different systems to work together is very often a challenge balance with you know creating connections between things or you know replacing systems to standardize things going challenge scale so that yeah things things can fail an unexpected way is when you scale down so you know whether it be you know running out of out of memory out of space some of those things you can anticipate and test for and some things you can't but but there are always surprises looking when you try to scale things beyond you know what you've tested in the past so you know we can test we can test and test but there's always stuff you miss so yeah we're you know we're we're drowning in data we've got more data than we can handle all the time and that's that's only gonna accelerate right now so you know anticipating that you know will be a challenge so we've got you know in the past you had to build your own servers now there's cloud computing right now but you know what happens if these competing centers I'm growing fast enough to keep up with our demands you know what do you do when AWS is full we don't know yet they're trying to keep up but you know [Music] so it you know I in my in my previous life I came from a non-functional world let's say and now that I'm working working in Scala more working with more functional programming you know I see the benefits of having type safety knowing what our inputs and outputs are going to be it really accelerates development and testing and it makes our production products a lot more stable we can use catch failures before they happen we don't get as many unexpected behaviors favorite part it's pretty it's it's a pretty cool community I was in a talk this morning where someone someone asked asked to speak quite understand it and someone else in the audience hopped in and for them so if it wasn't you know a one-way lecture in this kind of a conversation not just with the speaker in the audience but within the audience as well