Tales From a Radically Polyglot Team

Arranging software development around a wide mix of programming languages and technologies offers both challenges and rewards. In this talk Ryan will explore the pros and cons that the 6Wunderkinder team found when working with over 10 different programming languages in a single product.

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1. RADICALLY Polyglot TEAM
2. RYAN LEVICK @itchyankles
4. OVER ten LANGUAGES
10. Why?
11. Software Crisis
12. The major cause of the software crisis is that the machines have become several orders of magnitude more powerful! To put it quite bluntly: as long as there were no machines, programming was no problem at all…
13. …When we had a few weak computers, programming became a mild problem, and now we have gigantic computers, programming has become an equally gigantic problem. Edsger W. Dijkstra
15. void quick_sort (int *a, int n) { if (n < 2) return; int p = a[n / 2]; int *l = a; int *r = a + n - 1; while (l <= r) { if (*l < p) { l++; } else if (*r > p) { r--; } else { int t = *l; *l = *r; *r = t; l++; r--; } } quick_sort(a, r - a + 1); quick_sort(l, a + n - l); }
16. qsort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a] qsort [] = [] qsort (x:xs) = qsort less ++ [x] ++ qsort greater where less = [ y | y <- xs, y < x ] greater = [ y | y <- xs, y >= x ]
17. Internet
20. New Problems
25. Client Teams
26. Backend Team
27. OVER ten LANGUAGES
28. Bash Clojure C# Go Haskell Java JavaScript/ Node.js Objective-C Python Ruby Scala
29. Trivial
30. Your Responsibility
31. 1 2 3 4 5
32. Why?
33. We have to
35. We want to develop quicker
37. We want the system to run faster
39. We want to be more expressive
41. We want to learn
44. Is this really a good thing ?
45. Challenges
46. Deployment Woes
47. Context Switching
48. Jack-of-All-Trades ! Master-of-None
49. Benefits
51. Value Rigidity
52. The Fallacy of General Purpose
53. The Spread of Ideas
54. Avoid Group Think
56. The Best People
57. The Right Tool ! for the Job
58. Happier ! Employees
60. Your Future
61. Benefits of Polyglotism
62. Be Happy
63. Thank You