SBTB 2015: Julie Pitt, Scala.js: Confessions of a Backend Engineer

This talk video is a node in devreal.ai, the developer community graph. It connects to: Talk: Scala.js: confessions of a backend engin... — https://devreal.ai/t/150814-scala-js-... Speaker: Julie Pitt — https://devreal.ai/n/julie-pitt Project: Scala.js — https://devreal.ai/p/scala-js Event: Scala by the Bay — https://devreal.ai/e/150814-scala-by-... Explore these connections and related videos, photos, speakers’ blogs and podcasts, and other By the Bay networks. ----- Imagine you’re at a tiny startup, or perhaps on a small team. You need a quick-and-dirty, proof-of-concept UI and there’s no time to find a frontend developer. Or maybe you and your peers desperately need a web-based tool to make your jobs easier, and you realize that if you don’t build it, no one else will. But you’re “the backend guy” (or gal). You just don’t have time to dust off the little bit of JavaScript you learned 5 years ago. In fact, you chuckle at the thought of trying to get your teammates to maintain a JavaScript codebase. Fortunately, you don’t have to. You can write it all in Scala using Scala.js. In this talk, I’ll share my personal experience using Scala.js from the perspective of a backend Scala developer, and also walk you through what it’s like to build a real world client-server application using Scala.js. Julie is an engineering leader-turned-entrepreneur building brain-inspired algorithms capable of intelligent behavior. Much of her career has been spent building scalable, testable, resilient services and APIs in a variety of environments, from Netflix to government research institutions. Recently she has become a full stack engineer out of necessity. In 2012, Julie switched from Java to Scala as her primary language and has never gone back.