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Building a Better Scala Community
Kelley Robinson, Developer Evangelist at Twilio
Thursday, June 13, 2019 · 10:15 a.m. · 35m 31s
The Scala community has grown and adapted a lot in the last 10 years. We have made progress with better education, tooling, and communication but we still have a lot of work to do. Whether you're new to the Scala community or a contributor to the compiler, this talk will look at tangible ways we can get involved and thrive in the next 10 years. We'll discuss how to build trust through education in both online and offline communities. Let's celebrate our wins and examine our losses so that we can make everything from Stack Overflow to Scala Days a welcoming, useful, and positive experience for all.
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when everyone i thank you for being here thank you for waking up for our like you know in for my talk and thank you
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for coming to talk about community i think code is often the easy
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part of our jobs and i really appreciate your taking the time that
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so in the morning with me as we talk about some of the issues that are the harder parts of our jobs uh the the people
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parts and not the code parts so i'm i'm deeply grateful you're choosing
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to spend your time here this morning with me talking about this colour community
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uh my name is kelly robbins and uh i work at a company called to leo you might know us from your
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many words uh we are communications company that builds a p.
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i.s for adding things like s. m. s. u. now voice video
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authentication in your applications uh i work on the elderly asians seem utterly oh i'm
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specifically support the account security products their uh and so my job is about being
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in the community uh this is something that i've been doing for about two years
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now uh before that i was working a lot of small roles uh which is why
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i'm involved with all that this lovely people stella community uh but murder my job requires i
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do things like reading documentation and getting developer feedback
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on our products and so i speak it technical
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events like there's some technical topics that i attend events like skeletons i gotta me upset right
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block because i wanted to tell you about how i got here because my jobs are now and
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normal engineering i guess you could say i haven't been doing this community work full time for all of my career i
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so in twenty thirteen right under the code in boot camp this is not
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something i talk about a lot uh there's a stigma around coding do camps
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uh that you know maybe they don't have the same type of educational background is somebody that got a traditional c. s. background
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uh in my coding career i've ben worried about being taken seriously
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and so i didn't talk about the fact that i data cody booking i'm often because
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i was worried that would but people that would form a different opinion of me that maybe they wouldn't take me seriously
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but our industries flooded with who can't grads now especially in us uh in
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there's people like me that have been doing professional programming now for six years which
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in san francisco basically makes you distinguished engineer so i shouldn't be ashamed of this anymore right
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uh it but i was really lucky after uh going to the boot camp uh
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where i studied python and go i got hired by this company the right scholar
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and i was lucky the science very patient mentors and some
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people that were willing to give me very thorough code reviews
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that we're going to teach me what it was like to work in a professional organisation that
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would teach me what it was like to write production code in it was
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it was a really great experience uh when i was adverse all in twenty thirteen i was living in sermons it's got the
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time to and i went to my first meet up those ratings calico that i want to learn a little bit more nurses
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the selling eleven twenty thirteen where if ron johnson was on a panel
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defending in whatever he talked about in his keynote that's quality isn't twenty thirteen
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i was the cats quality isn't twenty thirteen if any of you were apparently was very controversial
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and so they actually invited him to a followup channel to basically to find what he was
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talking about i don't really understand any of the controversy was very new to all of us
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but i should have this need oppose really eager to like me people talk to
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people uh i didn't know anyone there and so it's kind of like standing awkwardly
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uh by myself and somebody came up to me and talk to me and asked me to refill the coffee
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i didn't go back to sell me up for three years that wasn't really discouraging
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experience for me because when you're in that kind of environment and you're being vulnerable and
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you're putting yourself out there the last thing that you want to do is be
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mistaken for the kitchen staff i so i spent a couple of years ratings colour coded
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and then i wanted to see how another company did did production engineering and so
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i went over this company called surety right did add tech for a few years
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uh i did a lot of data engineer in distributed systems there that was where i learned a lot about how to work was spark
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uh it was really interesting for me because i had then
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the junior engineer averse all i was the person that i
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i was i was i was asking the questions right like i was working with other more
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senior engineers one one over the shared through all this and people were asking for my advice
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i was the one that came in was stalin knowledge was the other engineers on a team
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had only done java previously entered picked up style on the job like i had my previous role
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and so suddenly i was in this position of being the person that
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could give other people advice and that was really really empowering for me because
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i got to be into kind of this new level is new level of my career or all the seven i was giving back
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and it was why was that share through the i kind of worked up
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the courage to say i'm going to start spreading this knowledge to other people
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this is something that i now have enough confidence in my abilities of this is
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something that i want to share with others and so i worked up the courage
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to submit a conference talk proposals call it isn't funny sixteen got accepted and i
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gave my first ever conference talk about three years ago it's holidays in new york city
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this was three years ago i was three years in my career
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as a software engineer is still really worry about being taken seriously
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and i really wanted for that myself as somebody with a lot
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of tactical credibility it didn't wanna be mistaken for the kitchen stuff
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and so i get this talk or why the free monad isn't for a how many we know what freeman ads are
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like have you are raising your hands are lying right now with nobody actually deals with the stuff has
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right like i didn't know what this was last minute the talk and i i did this thing that i
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do for my talk so that i like to call talk driven development which is that if there's something i
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want to understand i forced myself to explain it to other people and i make sure that i understand that
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as i worked really hard on the stock is very very
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terrified i'd i was terrified of the troll i was terrified of
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people being mean to me i was terrified of people not
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taking me seriously hyped for half the hell out of that talk
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and i i got through that uh people liked it it went over pretty well
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a partner she was in the audience for that talk which i'm very glad i didn't
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know until after the talk was over a a i i'm still really really proud
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of what i did there and the people that it's hopefully helped and i tell this
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story because this is my first real introduction the scholar community it took me three
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years to get to that point because of that one that experience i have had at
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this point like the twenty sixth in i've been working installer for three years like
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i was one of the more experienced also developers in the industry and i i i
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didn't really understand that i have something to share is the what i wanna talk about today is way is that
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i can encourage all of you to participate in this community
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encourage people to participate share their knowledge penis cares i was
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and hopefully we can make the community you place where people
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will be encouraged and want to to participate in that way
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uh but there was something else i know this that's quality isn't twenty sixteen which was
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there are a lot of women have the conference there especially work a lot of
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women speakers are actually three within speakers out of fifty five i counted i i it
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was me i would have a miller there was one other work and so we were
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the representation on stage and so when i got back to san francisco after that conference
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i was really other israel decided that i wanted to start this program called scholar bridge
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uh and celebrates mission is to build inclusive
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stolid community introductory programming workshops are under represented
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groups this is something that is a model that's been done another language communities are sad
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over our sheena organisation called bridges foundry that helps organise a lot
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of these different language bridges and so there's a ruby on rails bridge
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go bridger mobile bridge elm bridge and there's a stellar bridge and so with
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the help of the bridge from the organisation we got the workshops off the ground
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and i don't have the exact numbers listens twenty seventeen we did the first
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workshop and sermons us go with over two dozen workshops in many many countries
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and so a big round of applause to everybody that's been involved with that thank you very much
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for helping out
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but but in twenty sixteen there was something else that was introduced to the community that is arguably even more important
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no this is all centre uh in the cellar centre is
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uh for open source of education as many of you know a
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and uh it education is something that i think unless both of
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these organisations that i think is crucial to developing a strong community
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because the community is all of us and i want all of us to feel welcome to this
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quote is actually directly stolen from others talk about uh introducing the stylus entering twenty sixteen
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uh and i think it's so remains true right like you we all have to be a part of this to make the community great
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uh but if you're not somebody that spends a lot of time in the work or at conferences or what you might
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consider like the wider language community community is also applicable in
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your workplace the things that i'm going to talk about today
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are equally relevant right in your offices cultivating a supported team environment
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isn't that different from cultivating the support of wider language community
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conferences like solid is our great place to engage other developers
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uh and this is also true your regional meet up if you're not somebody
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that has the ability to calm to switzerland for a lot of these advance
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a lot of times are these user groups in your communities that you live and we're using it to other people
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but there is a place that we're all engaging that's online
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uh and places like stack overflow get hub getter slack right
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they're accessible to anyone in while they create a
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lot of opportunities that whole so read miscommunication and hostility
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i think we saw that in the keynote this morning that open source communities are necessarily always the most welcome
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there's a lot of ways to misinterpret what people say there's a lot of rude behaviour that happens
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there is other steps we can take to help mitigate that's another media had we build a better community
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and the answers that we can't do it alone we all have to take steps to make this a more welcoming place
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but i have three recommendations i wanna share with you a it in this are by any means not an exhaustive list
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uh there's obviously a lot of things that we can do as
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a community to make the place uh places that we operate more welcoming
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uh but the three things i wanna focus on our part to seen empathy building frost and empowering others
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so we'll start with factors in and that the empathy is this idea that you have the ability to understand others emotions
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uh more than that it's about being able to understand we have two others needs
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and concerns of how they're reacting emotionally empathy is a key part of emotional intelligence
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this is a hard thing the master but it's something that we can
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all actively work on because and the is this scale that can be
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developed it's not something that everybody is working with it's something that we
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can work on and i'm gonna tell you a couple of tracks i've learned
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how we can do that uh but i i wanna share this
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quote from uh make sure who is the creator of shows like parks
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and recreation good place is personal here of my i love this guy
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uh in so you're right i am a last year where somebody asked
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if you had a machine that could dispense internet amount of anything what would that be his answer them to be
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and you can see this reflected in the stories that he tells if you've ever watched one of the shows that
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he's he did you find yourself rooting for all the characters because he is a great way of developing their interspersed
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relationships is a great we're getting the audience tempered by
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wood and the price with their problems and he understands what
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the audience wants and what the audience is concerned about so he can reflect that in the characters that he develops
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this is important because understanding your audience understating the people that you're hearing to is
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incredibly lucrative impervious lucrative lecture assign a hundred and twenty five million dollar deal to
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work in d. c. for the next five years this is the type of thing
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that is going to grow your business in make people want to work with it off
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so in your own life some of the ways you can it's practised empathy used to start by asking why
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and especially instead of asking how well first
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i think this knowledge of all persons software engineers
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a lot of times we get really excited by asking how how are we going to build best
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how are we going to decide what tools to use what frameworks are we going to implement which
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libraries are we going to him for a user questions that we often immediately jump to and i'm
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very guilty this is well but if you want to start in and the ties with the the
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people that you're building for you need to start by asking why you're building the things that you're building
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mm really dig into that's if you've ever done a postmortem exercise
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there's a a famous method of doing is called five wise which is basically you
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ask why things happen at least five times to try to get to the recalls
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it's really easy to snap to judgement about why things are built the way they are this is another way that you can ask
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start by asking white hopefully amplifies with your co workers i mean is there
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anything more annoying than somebody coming into your project does she you know over everything
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that you've dealt so somebody comes and i'll i'll lie uses collateral that's terrible isn't
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real thing that somebody said once that well my company is the person was me
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uh that i didn't ask why was just like this is garbage what are you doing uh
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that the answer that i got when i finally somebody explain why without me actually asking was that
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it was an internal service at the time that was built sculpture made sense
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it was also an important service but i don't think about twelve or class per
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month it wasn't broken and so nobody needed to fix it so don't to us
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i i uh it but there's also gets into the answers that don't
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have as much of like a business case behind them right uh so
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there's a project to share through that inspired my free monad start because it was using freeman that's all throughout that
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yeah what i finally asked why that was happening in the answer
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was that the developer who built to just kind of felt like it
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there wasn't really a business case behind that decision uh
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and i think this is something that is it points near the more dangerous aspects of
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how we get into these types of problems so think about jurassic park right like they
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were so busy thinking about whether or not they could but they never stopped to think
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whether or not they should so this is something that i like to remind people of
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but just because you can't build something using these tools
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and then hottest latest framework doesn't mean that you necessarily shut
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it's really easy to over engineer things especially install where there's a million ways
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to build everything right uh so people have very strong opinions about how to build
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different types of software install a there's the you know the pure functional here on
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thursday we just came from java and so we're gonna write more jobs all camp
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there's there's all these different styles of small uh and it's really easy
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to get into the mindset of what has to be a certain way
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they wanna encourage you think about more practical solutions keep this question what does
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the customer need in the front of your mind this can be challenging right like
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style is mostly back and language sometimes the end user
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customer is so many levels removed from what you're actually working
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on the you might have not have like a direct line
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of communication with the stuff that uh they're concerned about alright
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but i think it's essential to understand how what you're building is affecting the people who are using that even if those
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people are other engineers the company maybe your kids are building in an internal e. p. r. that your friend and developers work
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i mean from some kind of an an application you can talk to them about how
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their consume in that in even talk to them about how they're been presenting the data
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there are ways to have these conversations to build these and this empathy with your customers
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and with the other people are using the software that you that is really important because
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it's essential to understand what you're building and how it's going to be used
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there's privacy and security implications of a lot of this is ethical
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implications and then this does try back to a lot of the practicality
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also longterm planning right like if you are building something that you
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know a customer needs is that because of x. y. and z. like
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this is something that we run into an industry and sometimes you just have to do that but if you know that in six months
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you're going to have a slightly different use case or maybe there's regulation that is coming online
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you might have to think ahead about how you're going to have to rebuild something in or the
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fact that it might be easier to scrap the small project that you have and and do it differently
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think about the the types of people that are going to be working with and how they're going to be able to onboard into that project
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there's a lot of considerations that you can make in these types of situations help uh make a better product
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uh in one reason this is hard is because all uh is an academic language uh
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it was developed here this university uh because a computer scientists rate like reading languages uh as far
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as i know it wasn't initially princess all the specific use case uh i don't know of martin's
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in here but you can correct me if i'm wrong about that uh it the majority of the
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people in here probably work in industry uh in we do have a customer at the other end
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uh in you know what that customer doesn't parallel they don't care about hope your your code as like you might
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care about that and i'm not saying that doesn't matter but you also need to keep the customer in mind i
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another important thing to consider is uh uh and this will help you pack to
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sample the uh with your coworkers and your customers uh is understanding someone's background uh
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and this will help you engage with them especially if you're trying
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to explain something or teach something so if you consider someone's language background
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i'm going to explain a scholar concept much differently than somebody who comes from java and somebody who comes from
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java script a java script has much more uh functional paradigms especially lately you know jobs would be into that
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but we know the people of condor job and how they approached colour there's different
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ways that you can uh introduce new concepts to people based on where they're coming from
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maybe those people only worked at large companies uh and therefore specialise in one or two
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things maybe they're not familiar with the type to build systems that you're using in your startups
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uh maybe they came from an enterprise software background where they had uh a lot of closed source that they're working on it so you can
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start to think about these different ways that you can engage the types
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of people that you're working with to better understand it amplifies but um
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my second recommendation is all about building trust uh and it's harder for people to
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feel welcome in your space if they can't trust that they will be respected in
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your space uh entailed interest is crucial to build in a supportive and strong community
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it waited just right trust is to pretend like you know everything i uh it
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so make their pets actually gaining this thought exercise which was if you give someone a project
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who are you going to trust more the person's like yep cool got it and walks away or the person
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that's like considers it for a minute and then asks for help in questions about the things that they don't understand
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and i think we tend to trust people that actually asked the thoughtful watch it's uh the key here is that asking
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thoughtful questions actually makes you seem smarter uh no one knows everything and no one should have to pretend like they do
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and this is an obvious right but this is actually hard asking questions
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so here's a great framework that i saw for my friend catherine on how to ask
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good questions uh and so her framework is that's it says i'm trying to do something
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so that i can achieve something else i'm running into an insert your problem here in here the things that i've
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tried to fix that there's a lot of benefits of using a framework like this uh so it clarifies your thought process
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it doesn't we someone else's time because if you can ask a question with these types of uh
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thoughtful considerations in it the person that you're asking that too is like oh this person's thought
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through that's right like and it's also going to be make it easier for them to help you
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it showcases the effort that you've done so even if you don't know something like there's no shame in
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not knowing something in but then you also level setting with what you do know what you do understand
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finally in the process of doing something like this of constructing this type of question right
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this is like the rubber duck method right like by the time you end up at the end of this question you might answer your own question
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so the way that i use this recently uh i'm trying to end it are are generated documentation there's a
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bunch of code repositories that were needed to do that so that i can fix the bar broken code sample
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i'm running into some feeling tass i've looked at the equivalent a
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product documentation in a different product and i tried adding these two files
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and when i presented are somebody on a team with this they're like oh okay well you
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can either at at x. and y. files you actually need is added c. fell off and
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that's why the tass is breaking and so this is something that made it a lot easier
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for that person to hold me and made it easier for me to get my question answered
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but this type of exercise isn't just for junior
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developers or new people to the language of the industry
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uh yeah asking for help is really hard so if you're in a position of power if you have seen your
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in your title i uh you really need a model this behaviour and that's this whole idea the reciprocity bill stress
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uh you can show people that it's normal to ask for help show people that
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is normal to ask questions ask clarifying questions nobody knows every acronym uh inserting yourself
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to get clarity will help other people in the room i i work in a
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lot of security related uh stuff now and insecurity there's this whole industry behind social engineering
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social engineering is the idea that i can call and try to steal my friends
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information by convincing the rise in or that the telecom agent that i am either
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her work of mother or something like that but you have to build trust of
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the person that you're trying to explain that situation and and the people who study this
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understand the psychology behind this of the reciprocity that you need to do
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in order to gain some monstrous and so that can be as simple as
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oh well i see that i'm running in this version of my operating system what what version a human in
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and so by offering up information about myself people are more willing to offer up information about them
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and this is the way the you can build trust the people are going to assume that you know what you're talking about uh
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but also assume that that's safe to share that kind of information
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with you this is all about making these more welcome means it's stuff
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another check to build interest is to avoid feigning surprise and so an
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example of this is uh i think in surprise happens when i'm like
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uh somebody says to me hey kelly you know like i've been using apache sparkling like what's what's that like you don't
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know what apache spark is it nobody likes to be reacted
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to like that and so instead of thing in that cave
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surprise away the pain into this type situation though it's called
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the library that we've been using the process large scale data
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let me let me tell you about it there's a lot of ways to react to those types of situations that don't
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essentially diminishing shame people for not having that kind of knowledge uh this check came from the uh the
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uh rick curse centre hand doctor occur centres as programmer tree in
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new york city where experienced programmers can go for three months just
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kind of learn something new uh it's really cool and i suggest you check off uh but i don't think i can under say uh
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over say how important one ability isn't all interest uh it
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being vulnerable and authentic is one of the most effective ways that i've seen to gain some monstrous
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everybody loves a good story about failure as i really wanna encourage you to admit when you don't
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know something because this dollars something that helps normal is a growth mindset of like we're all programmers
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none of us know everything we're all learning all the time that's basically
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what we're paid to do is be professional learners and rulers right uh
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let people see you make mistakes but no well steve
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are really great talk yesterday about teaching style i alright
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and he mentioned the live coding isn't really great way to teach other people uh how you do your job
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uh because it puts even very vulnerable situation right people see you mess up
00:25:26
but they also see how you recover from those mistakes is so enormous is
00:25:30
ideally you'd run into a bunch of compiler errors before you get something working
00:25:35
it shows how you can debug that code it teaches you about the tools that you're using
00:25:40
uh in that's a really powerful way for people to start to build confidence in our covering for mistakes
00:25:45
in normalising the fact that everybody is going to be making a lot of mistakes in their daily jobs
00:25:50
elementary my first job that i would ask all my questions geo and so for the first couple
00:25:55
months every time i ran into something i didn't know how to do our asked them about it
00:25:59
and there was one day i probably about two months and i went over them and what isn't working like what's going on is like
00:26:05
oh i don't know let's figure out the like takes the error message i was getting types in the google shows they have uh like
00:26:12
find the best stack overflow answer knows like cash turn and i
00:26:15
could done that and that was a very very powerful example of somebody
00:26:21
bean portables i don't think they were doing intentionally but it's an example
00:26:25
of how you can show that it's expected that you're going to be
00:26:29
learning in this process you're teaching someone how to get the answers for
00:26:33
themselves instead of just always giving them the answer pretending like you know everything
00:26:38
what i talk to new engineers i often joke about how like ninety percent of my job is just to going stuff
00:26:43
and often they don't believe me i think the as you get more senior you like or get better asking who will questions
00:26:50
maybe you're asking like a few last questions but i think vulnerability is this idea that you're still
00:26:55
going to make mistakes it doesn't really matter how experienced you are the site is still gonna happen
00:27:02
uh so another example of all abilities is for my coworker fell uh and so he
00:27:07
said you know how well just lost a good twenty minutes trying to debug a note up
00:27:12
i use experts that model and apparently it's models that export and of course since javascript is not a compiled language
00:27:18
you can't get that answer lesson twenty minutes unless you find the air that you're doing right uh
00:27:23
so it's not like seven hundred like sounds what are
00:27:25
people well hearing stories about experienced people making the six
00:27:31
this is a really good way to build empathy and be vulnerable and build trust with the people in your community
00:27:38
so if you're somebody who's looking for like talk inspiration or blog post
00:27:42
inspiration i would love to see more salad talks about how people fucked up
00:27:47
i don't think we get enough of that in this community i think we get a lot of what our talks about like
00:27:53
yes thank you i will help all of you read abstract about
00:27:58
the mistakes that you've made about how you're broken production the star
00:28:01
that would be fascinating we could do an entire conference about that but this is something that like
00:28:06
the learning is that you have in these types of experiences are really really great to share us
00:28:13
oh uh in this kind of seems obvious to say that like i think a lot of people this is what stops people from
00:28:20
submitting a lot of like conference talk proposals already bought post about stuff uh
00:28:25
but i like to share this example uh because this is like really basic knowledge
00:28:29
a a one of the things i do a lot in philly it was right technical blog posts but as part of that the people
00:28:35
on my team we review each other's papas and so i was really
00:28:38
make order sam's blog post about uh that's something the belie lessons left
00:28:43
and in his palm posey of this thing is like okay now like test this on your device because it was something that you can test
00:28:49
in the uh in the swift simulator as like well how do you
00:28:52
do that like i took grips with classic like done enough swift to be
00:28:57
slightly dangerous what that that like i'm not really an experience of developer slightly ghoul than
00:29:03
i had a look at eight different sites in order to get the answer that i needed
00:29:06
and so i wrote this blog post about how tester i was application real device
00:29:11
this might past performance polio block those this bottles get thousands of use every single week
00:29:18
and so this is something that i'd like to share with people because it doesn't have to
00:29:22
be something that you're like an expert on he doesn't have to be like the most complicated
00:29:27
technical topic for you to share your knowledge about something and i think that the basic concepts
00:29:33
are really helpful to a lot of people in this type of stuff should be shared more
00:29:39
oh and finally the third piece of advise sorry for building a
00:29:42
stronger communities to empower others uh in this is all about making space
00:29:47
for other people to participate this doesn't have to be a big gesture
00:29:51
in fact one of my favourite recommendations for this is idea of the pac man all anybody know what the pacman role as
00:29:58
right my coworker now is because i stole this from another coworker
00:30:03
uh so this is the idea that if each one of these das is the person if you're a physical than like a conference or meet up
00:30:09
you will leave physical space you only that pack the an opening for someone to join your conversation
00:30:15
and then when somebody does join the conversation you expand the group in the space for someone else to
00:30:20
this is a very like specific example of leaving like physical space
00:30:25
for people to participate you can think about how this applies online communities
00:30:29
or other communities that you participate in you really want to make it up
00:30:33
possible for people to contribute to your community uh from the keynote this morning
00:30:37
when you're talking about open source software one way the open source communities down
00:30:41
this is by putting that like help wanted about john get hot issues i
00:30:46
you know like uh this is a good issue for beginners is the way the signal for people that their participation is encouraged
00:30:52
in that community and that's kind of like the online example of even this physical space
00:31:00
but there's also is that you can do this inside the workplace uh
00:31:03
yeah so senior engineers are grown on trees someone when you can do
00:31:07
this is to hire and train folks that don't have cell experience uh
00:31:11
this also allows them to learn your system the way that you're building things
00:31:16
you don't necessarily need to hire people would ask all experience or for them to be back to members of your team
00:31:22
in your team will actually be stronger if you're willing to train people because by developing people who are good
00:31:28
at the training and that are willing to learn those
00:31:30
types of teaching exercises you're going to foster stronger team environment
00:31:36
and i don't have the best answer for how to develop the culture of the us um i'd love to
00:31:40
talk to people if they had teamster successful about that as i talk to a couple of people that work
00:31:45
at the b. b. c. yesterday were saying that they do a lot of pair programming and that's one way
00:31:50
that they incurs this kind of feedback culture i want
00:31:55
one idea that i have is to make mentor ship
00:31:58
uh and expectation for advancement in the workplace uh it is so this is something that you can do in order to
00:32:03
like get a promotion you have to have shown experience or
00:32:07
demonstrated the ability to train mentor junior engineers on the t. v.
00:32:14
if you're outside of the workplace uh there's a lot of other
00:32:16
ways that you can contribute and give back to the community empower others
00:32:20
um there's teaching opportunities it uh events excalibur is you can either teach or plan i celebrate event
00:32:27
in your community a pounding the pack panel is a great way to engage people events like this
00:32:35
uh you can answer questions on stack overflow coach someone on their media presentation there's a lot of ways that you can get back
00:32:42
if you are interested in getting involved this coverage uh you can check our website
00:32:47
uh we are also want what are and then we have a slap channels that
00:32:52
i you can participate in discuss several hundred numbers sounds very very great place to
00:32:57
uh get feedback on there's a channel and they're all about teaching scholar there's definitely people in the the plan are
00:33:03
courtney that other events as even the ambiance better for inviting to that um before
00:33:09
i wrap up i've really wanted to personally thank these three people off sorry and emotional
00:33:22
so now all avon heather i have really taken up the torch of uh and
00:33:28
stella bridge and these three people have probably planned like eighty percent of this collaborative and
00:33:35
a caesar just like really really awesome people knoll created maintains all the
00:33:40
the curriculum i'm heather has shepherded just since her time as the executive director of
00:33:45
the stalls under any hard it's basically like he can over celebrate at this point
00:33:50
she enforce likened yes qualities is here but i'm very very grateful for all these people
00:33:55
um i'm sorry for not recognising everybody was purchased maidens aldrich thank
00:34:00
you very much for uh everything that you've done um i'm sorry
00:34:06
uh if you are looking for web communities to get involved with um
00:34:11
these are great great opportunities to get involved a on line in communities that uh are hostile and
00:34:17
so if you are on your program or or i have people on your team that uh are
00:34:22
getting getting started with this type of thing i could newbies is really great a dev too was
00:34:26
kind of like a kind of like actor dues but like there's not councils there huh and so
00:34:32
they were really great job of like foster in a community in these are not language specific or or or anything like that
00:34:38
but there's a lot of uh information on there and there's one
00:34:41
engagement on those platforms that allows people to participate in the communities
00:34:47
so a quick reminder the things you can do to build a better community
00:34:51
uh the solid mean any is all of ours and with a bit of crane
00:34:56
us to ourselves into each other i think we can continue to thrive thank you
00:35:08
i'm not gonna be taking questions right now but i'll be right outside of that well a bit after thank you all for coming in
00:35:18
ah
Conference Program
A Tour of Scala 3
Martin Odersky, Professor EPFL, Co-founder Lightbend
June 11, 2019 · 5:15 p.m.
8337 views
A story of unification: from Apache Spark to MLflow
Reynold Xin, Databricks
June 12, 2019 · 9:15 a.m.
1268 views
In Types We Trust
Bill Venners, Artima, Inc
June 12, 2019 · 10:15 a.m.
1569 views
Creating Native iOS and Android Apps in Scala without tears
Zahari Dichev, Bullet.io
June 12, 2019 · 10:16 a.m.
2232 views
Techniques for Teaching Scala
Noel Welsh, Inner Product and Underscore
June 12, 2019 · 10:17 a.m.
1296 views
Future-proofing Scala: the TASTY intermediate representation
Guillaume Martres, student at EPFL
June 12, 2019 · 10:18 a.m.
1157 views
Metals: rich code editing for Scala in VS Code, Vim, Emacs and beyond
Ólafur Páll Geirsson, Scala Center
June 12, 2019 · 11:15 a.m.
4695 views
Akka Streams to the Extreme
Heiko Seeberger, independent consultant
June 12, 2019 · 11:16 a.m.
1552 views
Scala First: Lessons from 3 student generations
Bjorn Regnell, Lund Univ., Sweden.
June 12, 2019 · 11:17 a.m.
577 views
Cellular Automata: How to become an artist with a few lines
Maciej Gorywoda, Wire, Berlin
June 12, 2019 · 11:18 a.m.
386 views
Why Netflix ❤'s Scala for Machine Learning
Jeremy Smith & Aish, Netflix
June 12, 2019 · 12:15 p.m.
5029 views
Massively Parallel Distributed Scala Compilation... And You!
Stu Hood, Twitter
June 12, 2019 · 12:16 p.m.
958 views
Polymorphism in Scala
Petra Bierleutgeb
June 12, 2019 · 12:17 p.m.
1113 views
sbt core concepts
Eugene Yokota, Scala Team at Lightbend
June 12, 2019 · 12:18 p.m.
1656 views
Double your performance: Scala's missing optimizing compiler
Li Haoyi, author Ammonite, Mill, FastParse, uPickle, and many more.
June 12, 2019 · 2:30 p.m.
837 views
Making Our Future Better
Viktor Klang, Lightbend
June 12, 2019 · 2:31 p.m.
1682 views
Testing in the postapocalyptic future
Daniel Westheide, INNOQ
June 12, 2019 · 2:32 p.m.
498 views
Context Buddy: the tool that knows your code better than you
Krzysztof Romanowski, sphere.it conference
June 12, 2019 · 2:33 p.m.
394 views
The Shape(less) of Type Class Derivation in Scala 3
Miles Sabin, Underscore Consulting
June 12, 2019 · 3:30 p.m.
2321 views
Refactor all the things!
Daniela Sfregola, organizer of the London Scala User Group meetup
June 12, 2019 · 3:31 p.m.
514 views
Integrating Developer Experiences - Build Server Protocol
Justin Kaeser, IntelliJ Scala
June 12, 2019 · 3:32 p.m.
551 views
Managing an Akka Cluster on Kubernetes
Markus Jura, MOIA
June 12, 2019 · 3:33 p.m.
735 views
Serverless Scala - Functions as SuperDuperMicroServices
Josh Suereth, Donna Malayeri & James Ward, Author of Scala In Depth; Google ; Google
June 12, 2019 · 4:45 p.m.
936 views
How are we going to migrate to Scala 3.0, aka Dotty?
Lukas Rytz, Lightbend
June 12, 2019 · 4:46 p.m.
709 views
Concurrent programming in 2019: Akka, Monix or ZIO?
Adam Warski, co-founders of SoftwareMill
June 12, 2019 · 4:47 p.m.
1974 views
ScalaJS and Typescript: an unlikely romance
Jeremy Hughes, Lightbend
June 12, 2019 · 4:48 p.m.
1377 views
Pure Functional Database Programming‚ without JDBC
Rob Norris
June 12, 2019 · 5:45 p.m.
6375 views
Why you need to be reviewing open source code
Gris Cuevas Zambrano & Holden Karau, Google Cloud;
June 12, 2019 · 5:46 p.m.
484 views
Develop seamless web services with Mu
Oli Makhasoeva, 47 Degrees
June 12, 2019 · 5:47 p.m.
785 views
Implementing the Scala 2.13 collections
Stefan Zeiger, Lightbend
June 12, 2019 · 5:48 p.m.
811 views
Introduction to day 2
June 13, 2019 · 9:10 a.m.
250 views
Sustaining open source digital infrastructure
Bogdan Vasilescu, Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, USA
June 13, 2019 · 9:16 a.m.
375 views
Building a Better Scala Community
Kelley Robinson, Developer Evangelist at Twilio
June 13, 2019 · 10:15 a.m.
245 views
Run Scala Faster with GraalVM on any Platform
Vojin Jovanovic, Oracle
June 13, 2019 · 10:16 a.m.
1342 views
ScalaClean - full program static analysis at scale
Rory Graves
June 13, 2019 · 10:17 a.m.
463 views
Flare & Lantern: Accelerators for Spark and Deep Learning
Tiark Rompf, Assistant Professor at Purdue University
June 13, 2019 · 10:18 a.m.
380 views
Metaprogramming in Dotty
Nicolas Stucki, Ph.D. student at LAMP
June 13, 2019 · 11:15 a.m.
1250 views
Fast, Simple Concurrency with Scala Native
Richard Whaling, data engineer based in Chicago
June 13, 2019 · 11:16 a.m.
624 views
Pick your number type with Spire
Denis Rosset, postdoctoral researcher at Perimeter Institute
June 13, 2019 · 11:17 a.m.
245 views
Scala.js and WebAssembly, a tale of the dangers of the sea
Sébastien Doeraene, Executive director of the Scala Center
June 13, 2019 · 11:18 a.m.
661 views
Performance tuning Twitter services with Graal and ML
Chris Thalinger, Twitter
June 13, 2019 · 12:15 p.m.
2003 views
Supporting the Scala Ecosystem: Stories from the Line
Justin Pihony, Lightbend
June 13, 2019 · 12:16 p.m.
163 views
Compiling to preserve our privacy
Manohar Jonnalagedda and Jakob Odersky, Inpher
June 13, 2019 · 12:17 p.m.
302 views
Building Scala with Bazel
Natan Silnitsky, wix.com
June 13, 2019 · 12:18 p.m.
565 views
Diversity and Inclusion Panel: Bring the Thunder!
Panel
June 13, 2019 · 2:30 p.m.
245 views
Asynchronous streams in direct style with and without macros
Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
June 13, 2019 · 3:45 p.m.
304 views
Interactive Computing with Jupyter and Almond
Sören Brunk, USU Software AG
June 13, 2019 · 3:46 p.m.
681 views
Scala best practices I wish someone'd told me about
Nicolas Rinaudo, CTO of Besedo
June 13, 2019 · 3:47 p.m.
2708 views
High performance Privacy By Design using Matryoshka & Spark
Wiem Zine El Abidine and Olivier Girardot, Scala Backend Developer at MOIA / co-founder of Lateral Thoughts
June 13, 2019 · 3:48 p.m.
754 views
Immutable Sequential Maps – Keeping order while hashed
Odd Möller
June 13, 2019 · 4:45 p.m.
277 views
All the fancy things flexible dependency management can do
Alexandre Archambault, engineer at the Scala Center
June 13, 2019 · 4:46 p.m.
389 views
ScalaWebTest - integration testing made easy
Dani Rey, Unic AG
June 13, 2019 · 4:47 p.m.
468 views
Mellite: An Integrated Development Environment for Sound
Hanns Holger Rutz, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM), Graz
June 13, 2019 · 4:48 p.m.
213 views
Closing panel
Panel
June 13, 2019 · 5:54 p.m.
400 views