SF Scala dryTools interview 9-20-16
Recording: SF Scala dryTools interview 9-20-16
[Music] hello everybody I'm Alexa crab roof of the organizer of sf's column and here we're on location at shasta ventures which actually funds a lot of scholar companies including type-safe now light dent and our current sponsor tally so we are very fortunate to have great companies working of scholar from around the world with us today one of them is dry tools the first time have a company from Serbia here in the heart of San Francisco so I'll let these guys introduce themselves welcome hi thank you i'm guessing the storm coming from serbia fino Assad i'm co-founder of dry toast company basically via our product is seafood seafood tool and we are trying to make dollars life easier by speaking them up and basically that's it yeah yeah hi I'm Marco I'm in also co-founder and CEO of the company so you know we were looking forward to a great meet up today yeah so total bit why scholar why developer productivity how it all came about like what motivated basically the technology ok basically for last 10 years we have been a developer's we worked for big companies banks and share companies mostly focused on Java stack but lately install also and to be honest we get bored doing the same job all over again we then five few patterns that data course and that we think that we can actually automate the developers job because we see all that opportunities in Scala and because color Roxanne below it we choose to do that in Scala and scholarship with few really great features they it have a parser out of the box that works it's like standards college library that you get its color and pattern matching functional development and everything else is actually was easy choice for us to continue working this color mm-hmm so I'm really curious right like you're the first company out of Serbia coming to our meetup so tell us a little bit about the market are there enough developers who will appreciate this tools in Serbia or I oriented beyond like who I customers okay see basically Serbia we are still many folks as outsourcing companies that's something that should be right now is but it's slowly changing so we are starting to develop our own products and go-to-market be that mhm there is not so big skull community in Serbia and we are trying to do that we are part of skull community there and doing our best to change it about our tool we notice in Serbia there is a great need for that because as I told many companies outsource outsource company so they need some some tools like that to be more competitive to increase their quality but also in San Francisco the composite we talk talk with so far they are all thrilled with our tool and we'll see how it goes from now basically it's a global problem they're not enough developers software is it in the world we need to do something about it so that's it okay so kind of way so basically your developers are in ANOVA sod right where do you get them right like how do they make them all right because in order to be a scholar developer you need to have certain level of experience certain yeah right like career curve yeah where they come from you're absolutely right about it basically do know is that have great university with technical science so that university have like really good academic classes and everything so we get really good developers from there mm-hmm but also that outsourcing community is doing great job so they are building those developers for us and that's like the way up you know because most of them are works works in Java or C sharp the skull is like obvious next choice for them and so people actually trill when we told them that we work in Scala and they want to join us mostly because of that you see how big is the University how many students I think 40,000 the whole University mm-hmm couple of thousands and Technical University and also yeah so so technical university and university of Natural Sciences yeah but basically IT department combined is like three or four hundred people every year that comes all the way back at this big it's it's really hyped up to be soft and visionary Serbia right now or so they are expanding that market I guess so they are focusing on to increase academic possibilities in that area now it's like doing good hey funny but it yeah I mean a lot of places right like this is new so compared to other so I mean obviously there's Belgrade like what are the other so other centers like you have a Belgrade and Norris add a little bit of niche those are three major cities mm-hmm and that's it okay so the second second laughable ray yeah but there is a because of the strong university the development community north side is the same sizes in Belgrade so Belger these four times bigger cities like more than two million people but the development community is the same mm-hmm because of the university cool how do you guys I mean obviously you know Europe is very different from the US you know like there is a lot of countries in the smaller how do you guys interact with kind of other european communities in scala do you go to other peoples conferences or the meetups is there like a lot of interchange Europe is much more closed than us so it's much easier to develop a network in u.s. than in Europe European people or no they have still have borders and countries and so it's like with people as well yes so it's a little bit it's a bit of work to open up okay so in terms of customers is it easy for you to actually get customers from the US then from Belgium Brussels yes yes because the difference with the customers is that US in US people are you know they don't want to miss the opportunity uh-huh and in Europe is more like hey you know you need to be very big and established and then i will use you so it's a completely different okay so the thing is that you have to make it in us and then if you are in good in u.s. then you're good enough for european come okay so see us first strategy executive you certainly get the globe we come back okay that's great okay I like it I like it no this is cool so so you know we're gonna kind of you know CEO technical talk so I'm going to ask like a lot of questions about that but so I'm just curious right so you you help developers should they be already in Scala what you do help speed to bring people into Scala no actually neither of that we we think the people should keep in their stacks that they're like of course they want to move to scowl something advance that that's up to them but actually we want to help people in all steps that they are using and now we are mostly help helping people in Java mm-hmm because like that's the biggest market and for us but soon enough we are going to sports fala and no dress and stuff like that so we are not converting them to star Scala but basically of tool is built is paola so can you explain briefly what is the main value proposition of our song yeah actual domain proposition is that we are doing eight percent of the work for the developers our to have a really good conversion because one line of code in our tool is actually can be converted up to five to 10 lines of Java code of JavaScript code because for now so developers are much faster and the quality is much better of course there is if to refactor things to communicate because that's like centralized specification of the entire product so that's our main values that we are proposing exciting so basically you're you're 3 22 to 24 times faster of developing applications when you're using our tool compared to what when you do programming traditional okay that's only initial value I don't think anybody can say no to that meeting missile face so so really exciting thanks for coming thanks for sharing looking forward to your talk and good luck with with adventure thank you thank you thank you for having are you [Music]