scale.bythebay.io: Bill Venners Interview

oh my name is Bill Venters and I am with oh my name is Bill Venters and I am with our team an Inc and I am be present well our team an Inc and I am be present well we just had a legacy we have this really we just had a legacy we have this really old website that we're trying to update old website that we're trying to update and we just moved it to AWS from a very and we just moved it to AWS from a very expensive place and we're trying to expensive place and we're trying to integrate the old with the new trying to integrate the old with the new trying to update it so I don't I didn't have too update it so I don't I didn't have too much scale directly what I think I'm much scale directly what I think I'm having the challenge of scaling is having the challenge of scaling is actually scaling the company so it was actually scaling the company so it was originally just me and now we're seven originally just me and now we're seven people so trying to like get things off people so trying to like get things off of me and figure out how to get people of me and figure out how to get people taking care of things taking care of things and since we're Scala it includes we do and since we're Scala it includes we do consulting so it's includes teaching consulting so it's includes teaching people Scala and trying to scale like people Scala and trying to scale like that knowledge so I've I've been you that knowledge so I've I've been you know I've experienced the challenges of know I've experienced the challenges of growing a team and with Scala in the mix growing a team and with Scala in the mix essentially [Music] well we do client work so there's well we do client work so there's definitely we have you know there are definitely we have you know there are issues so but yeah I think that for me issues so but yeah I think that for me the main thing is growth is scaling the the main thing is growth is scaling the people [Music] functional programming is fun for one functional programming is fun for one thing so it's just a much more enjoyable thing so it's just a much more enjoyable I don't know it's it's it is actually I don't know it's it's it is actually and that that makes a difference you and that that makes a difference you know that you enjoy it and I think it's know that you enjoy it and I think it's it it's interesting because it has this it it's interesting because it has this claim of being easier to reason about claim of being easier to reason about and it's you know I think it is in the and it's you know I think it is in the in the large definitely but what in the large definitely but what happened is been when people come to happened is been when people come to Scala they they come from different Scala they they come from different backgrounds but they all tend to backgrounds but they all tend to gravitate towards functional programming gravitate towards functional programming and that's just how they want to use it and that's just how they want to use it it's not really there that they're it's not really there that they're forced to or they are told they have to forced to or they are told they have to do it that way I mean it takes them a do it that way I mean it takes them a while to change from these old habits while to change from these old habits but it's just kind of a natural but it's just kind of a natural you just kind of fall into that flow and you just kind of fall into that flow and that's how you gonna do it that's how you gonna do it I think the hallway track which Mike I think the hallway track which Mike bill quiz that we coin that that term bill quiz that we coin that that term dis really no I actually do always like dis really no I actually do always like when I go to conferences in general I when I go to conferences in general I like seeing people and talking to people like seeing people and talking to people talking to new people thought the old talking to new people thought the old friends that's really I guess you know friends that's really I guess you know these days the programming community is these days the programming community is is connected online really well but is connected online really well but there's something about being in person there's something about being in person that is just you know it's really that is just you know it's really important to do pretty often that's what important to do pretty often that's what you get here