Scale By The Bay 2018: Holden Karau Interview

awesome so my name is Holden I'm a awesome so my name is Holden I'm a developer advocate focused on open developer advocate focused on open source Big Data I work at Google and I'm source Big Data I work at Google and I'm based in San Francisco so I build a based in San Francisco so I build a whole bunch of different things but the whole bunch of different things but the main thing that I build right now is main thing that I build right now is Apache spark and I think it's pretty Apache spark and I think it's pretty awesome because it's a great way of awesome because it's a great way of tricking people into learning functional tricking people into learning functional programming and it brings a lot of programming and it brings a lot of people's the scylla community I mean I people's the scylla community I mean I really care about data pipelines that's really care about data pipelines that's just what my whole world revolves around well since it's a panel and it depends well since it's a panel and it depends on what kind of questions were asked but on what kind of questions were asked but one of the things which terrifies me is one of the things which terrifies me is that people don't seem to do a good that people don't seem to do a good enough job testing or validating their enough job testing or validating their software can be challenging to do in a software can be challenging to do in a cloud environment when you don't have cloud environment when you don't have easy mocks of the services that you're easy mocks of the services that you're building against but I think just building against but I think just because it's challenging doesn't mean because it's challenging doesn't mean that you don't need to and so I'll try that you don't need to and so I'll try and find a way to get people to test and find a way to get people to test their software drinking Phil's coffee their software drinking Phil's coffee you have a different coffee vendor here you have a different coffee vendor here than I'm used to [Music] [Music] I mean Scala changed my life in some I mean Scala changed my life in some pretty huge ways it allowed me to find a pretty huge ways it allowed me to find a job writing functional programming code job writing functional programming code for money allowed me to trick people for money allowed me to trick people into learning functional programming for into learning functional programming for money I think it's pretty awesome money I think it's pretty awesome and it also gave me a community of and it also gave me a community of friends which I've really enjoyed I've friends which I've really enjoyed I've been working in Scala for a long time been working in Scala for a long time and so it's really nice to watch the and so it's really nice to watch the community grow and have all these community grow and have all these friends that I never really thought I friends that I never really thought I would have in programming the phils coffee is not as good as the phils coffee is not as good as you're expecting but the talks are you're expecting but the talks are pretty great you