Choosing the right technology

Presented at IF ITB

Transcript

1. ITB 10.10.2014
2. Who? Nugroho Herucahyono @xinuc (twitter, github) Programmer Bukalapak.com
3. CHOOSING THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY
4. CHOOSING THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY For startup
5. CHOOSING THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY For startup Language
6. Why Startup: limited resources designed to be scalable
7. why The success or failure of a startup often determined by its choice of technology
8. why A startup can not choose its technology the way big companies choose theirs
9. why The technology we choose should be our competitive advantage
10. users Our users don't care about the technology we use All they care about is the product
11. Language How to choose the best programming language for our startup?
12. Language Java might be the standard, but...
13. Language Don't choose Java (or any programming language) just because everyone use it
14. Language We can do much better than Java
15. consideration Things to consider: –Platform –Open source –Community –Libraries –Performance & Scalability –Powerful –Happiness
16. Platform Web? Mobile? Desktop?
17. Open source Open source gives us more control
18. Community Great community is helps us a lot when we're in trouble
19. libraries Faster development Fewer code to maintain
20. Expressive Easy to translate idea to code
21. performance Do you really need a “very very fast” language? or do you need a “fast enough” language?
22. Powerful Not all “High-level” languages are made the same
23. continuum Machine language assembly C C++ Obj C Java Perl Python Ruby Haskell Lisp Elixir Rust Go C# PHP Scala Clojure Erlang F# Javascript
24. Change Changing programming language is hard
25. Change Change of programming language == Change of the way we think
26. Change Learn a new programming language every year
27. choosing Ignore what other people are doing Only consider what work best
28. Happiness Choose a language that makes us happy It'll be a part of our life for years
29. Thanks?
30. Questions?