ParisScalaUG

cfp.scala-ug.paris On attend vos propositions !

Congratulations @odersky for receiving the Programming Languages Achievement Award @icfp_conference - well deserved! :) I can only confirm what it says on the citation, your work deeply impacted how I view programming. Let's work towards making #Scala a continued success!

Junior PM: I'm shipping everything on time, team loves me, but my manager says I'm "not strategic enough." I'm exhausted trying to figure out what that means. Senior PM: What did you tell him you accomplished last quarter? Junior PM: Delivered 5 features, reduced tech debt, improved team velocity by 15%. Senior PM: And what did he hear? Junior PM: That I delivered 5 features? Senior PM: He heard "I kept the team busy with stuff that doesn't move numbers I get asked about." Junior PM: But velocity improvement is strategic. Senior PM: To who? Junior PM: To... the team? Senior PM: Your manager spends 20 minutes a week with his director explaining why you exist. Can he use velocity to justify your headcount? Junior PM: I... probably not. Senior PM: What business metrics did those 5 features move? Junior PM: Three were tech debt, one was a sales request, one was compliance. We don't really measure impact on that stuff. Senior PM: There's your problem. Half your work is invisible by design. Junior PM: But that work was necessary. The platform would break without it. Senior PM: I believe you. Your manager's director doesn't care. Junior PM: That seems unfair. Senior PM: It is unfair. It's also how companies work. Your manager gets grilled about revenue and retention, not platform stability. Junior PM: So I should have said no to the tech debt? Senior PM: You probably couldn't. But you should have framed it differently. Junior PM: How? Senior PM: "Prevented $200K in potential downtime costs" sounds better than "reduced tech debt." Junior PM: But I don't have that number. Senior PM: Then you're fighting organizational reality without weapons. Junior PM: I don't have analytics support or time to instrument everything. Senior PM: Most junior PMs don't. That's the trap - you get judged on business impact but don't get business resources. Junior PM: So what do I do? Senior PM: Acknowledge the game is rigged, then play it anyway. Junior PM: Meaning? Senior PM: Make allies in sales and marketing. They have the numbers you need. Shadow customer calls. Connect your work to their goals. Junior PM: That feels political. Senior PM: Everything above a certain level is political. The choice isn't political vs pure. It's visible vs irrelevant. Junior PM: What if I try this and my manager still doesn't care? Senior PM: Then you learn your manager doesn't know how to evaluate PM work. That's a different problem - one you solve by finding a better manager. Junior PM: This is harder than just building good products. Senior PM: Building good products is table stakes. Surviving organizational dysfunction while building good products - that's the actual job.

Why should you learn an FP lang? Almost every programming language feature you love was invented in an FP lang decades before it became mainstream: - Garbage collection (lisp, 1950s) - Generics (ML, 1978) - Closures (scheme 1975) - Sum types and pattern matching (NPL 1970s)

Pour ceux qui sont a @DevoxxFR , on se retrouve à 20h pour parler de modélisation de domaines en Scala. A tout à l'heure. mobile.devoxx.com/events/devoxxf…

FYI : 2024-11 / Paris

Thank you @data_dome for hosting us tonight, and thank you for our speakers Monica McGuigan and @bishabosha. We like to see you again in Paris.

We continue with the presentation of Jamie Thompson (Scala center): "How do we optimise Scala build times?".

C'est parti pour le dernier meetup de l'année chez @data_dome

Here are the slides for my talk on Free at the @ParisScalaUG , which was great fun and I hope not too obscure: nrinaudo.github.io/talks/free.html

Hello 👋, pour le meetup d'octobre du PSUG, @Mobiskill nous accueille le 26 octobre pour le talk : "La monade discutablement gratuite" (par @NicolasRinaudo). Les inscriptions c'est par ici: meetup.com/paris-scala-us… A bientôt.

We look forward to seeing you at tonight's London Scala Talks, from 6pm at Quantexa! We have a packed schedule tonight, checkout the lineup here meetup.com/london-scala/e…

On commence avec le talk de @chrilves: "Comparons Scala et Rust".

C'est parti pour le meetup d'octobre. Merci à @TeadsFR pour l'accueil.

Pour rappel, on se retrouve tout à l'heure chez @TeadsFR pour le talk de @chrilves: "Comparons Scala et Rust". Pour ceux qui ne pourront pas être là, merci d'annuler votre inscription au meetup. A toute à l'heure.

Hello 👋, Pour ce meetup de rentrée du PSUG, @TeadsFR / @TeadsInnovation nous accueille le 28 septembre pour le talk : "Comparons Scala et Rust" (par @chrilves). Les inscriptions c'est par ici: meetup.com/paris-scala-us… A bientôt.

Are you ready? 🏁⏱️🤗

As we prepare the conference for this year, at the end of October, you can check the talks from our fantastic speakers : @scalaio/playlists" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@scalaio/playl… (yes, we don't have the talks for 2013)

On continue la session chez @ContentSquareFR avec le talk sur le scheduling de data pipeline de @heapoverflow.

On démarre la session avec la présentation de Scala steward avec @_AliFirat 🚀