Maxim Fedorov's guest appearances

Maxim Fedorov

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Sophie DeBenedetto

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Hans Elias Josephsen

Todd Resudek

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Sean Lewis

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Brooklyn Zelenka

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Tänään minulla on vieraana Maxim Fedorov, joka on Ylen toimittaja Ukrainan pääkaupungissa Kiovassa.Kysyin Maximilta nämä kysymykset: 1. Kuka olet ja mitä teet?2. Miten, missä ja milloin aloit opiskella suomen kieltä?3. Millaista oli muuttaa pysyvästi Suomeen? (tai ajattelitko silloin, että se on pysyvää?)4. Kuinka päädyit toimittajaksi Ylelle?5. Kuinka pidät huolta siitä, että jaksat nykyisessä työssäsi? 6. Mitä vinkkejä antaisit henkilöille, jotka opiskelevat suomen kieltä? Maximin haastattelu Kotiliedessä: https://kotiliesi.fi/ihmiset-ja-ilmiot/maxim-fedorov/ Maximin haastattelu Helsingin Sanomissa: https://www.hs.fi/hyvinvointi/art-2000009556572.htmlMaximin Töissä Suomessa -teksti mun blogissa vuonna 2019: https://randomfinnishlesson.blogspot.com/2019/05/toissa-suomessa-toimittaja-ja-juontaja.html

Tänään minulla on vieraana Maxim Fedorov, joka on Ylen toimittaja Ukrainan pääkaupungissa Kiovassa. Kysyin Maximilta nämä kysymykset: 1. Kuka olet ja mitä teet? 2. Miten, missä ja milloin aloit opiskella suomen kieltä? 3. Millaista oli muuttaa pysyvästi Suomeen? (tai ajattelitko silloin, että se on pysyvää?) 4. Kuinka päädyit toimittajaksi Ylelle? 5. Kuinka pidät huolta siitä, että jaksat nykyisessä työssäsi? 6. Mitä vinkkejä antaisit henkilöille, jotka opiskelevat suomen kieltä? Maximin haastattelu Kotiliedessä: <a href="https://kotiliesi.fi/ihmiset-ja-ilmiot/maxim-fedorov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://kotiliesi.fi/ihmiset-ja-ilmiot/maxim-fedorov/</a> Maximin haastattelu Helsingin Sanomissa: <a href="https://www.hs.fi/hyvinvointi/art-2000009556572.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.hs.fi/hyvinvointi/art-2000009556572.html</a> Maximin Töissä Suomessa -teksti mun blogissa vuonna 2019: <a href="https://randomfinnishlesson.blogspot.com/2019/05/toissa-suomessa-toimittaja-ja-juontaja.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://randomfinnishlesson.blogspot.com/2019/05/toissa-suomessa-toimittaja-ja-juontaja.html</a>

Vieraana toimittaja Maxim Fedorov

Today we are so excited to share a conversation with Maxim Fedorov, who is the Core Infrastructure Lead at communications giant, WhatsApp! In our chat, Maxim offers such interesting insight and wisdom from a long career in the space, focusing on Erlang and why he views it as such a powerful language for the work at WhatsApp. We also get some backstory from Maxim, looking at his first experiences with computers, his educational background, and some of the work he did leading up to his current position. Our guest does a great job of sharing his thoughts on what he sees as a lack of magic within the Erlang language, why he prefers this, and how the company has managed to scale in such a major way over the past years. We also deal with some more general questions, weighing functional languages against object-oriented ones, useful resource recommendations, and a whole lot more! We finish off this episode with a mini-interview with David Hardwick, who is the current Vice President of Engineering at STORD, so make sure to stay tuned until the end for that!  Key Points From This Episode:  The beginnings of Maxim's interest in computer science and software development.  How Maxim transitioned into the network security field.  Maxim's experience with timezones and how this is approached for an app like WhatsApp. Thoughts on why WhatsApp is so popular outside of the United States.  How Erlang is used at WhatsApp to power messaging.  Probable reasons that Erlang was selected as the language for WhatsApp. Outages and downtime; what constitutes a serious issue for WhatsApp user experience.  The massive growth that WhatsApp has seen and how their approach to scaling has evolved. Characteristics of Erlang that make it so well suited to WhatsApp's needs; simplicity and reliability.  Maxim's perspective on the issues around programmer education and their results. Functional languages versus object-oriented programming; Maxim's thoughts on strengths and weaknesses. Why Maxim views Erlang as not containing or performing anything magical.  Maxim's recommendations for resources when getting started in Erlang! Looking back at Maxim's experiences of tertiary education and the thesis he produced.  The scaling of the WhatsApp server; the project that Maxim is most proud of! Maxim's love for motorcycles and bicycles and how these grew out of initial conveniences. Today's mini-feature interview with David Hardwick, VP of Engineering at STORD.  Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/  Maxim Fedorov: https://au.linkedin.com/in/maxim-fedorov-14a570b Electronika MK-61 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_MK-52 Brian Acton — https://www.forbes.com/profile/brian-acton/ Learn You Some Erlang — https://learnyousomeerlang.com/ Adopting Erlang — https://github.com/adoptingerlang Joe Armstrong Thesis — https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf The BEAM Book— https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook ejabberd — https://www.ejabberd.im/ Will Cathcart Tweet — https://twitter.com/wcathcart/status/1385253969522413568 Clarke's three laws — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws Lukas Larson — https://twitter.com/garazdawi Erlang OTP — https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/kernel/src/pg.erl David Hardwick — https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhardwick STORD — https://www.stord.com/ BetterCloud — http://www.bettercloud.com/Special Guest: Maxim Fedorov.

Today we are so excited to share a conversation with Maxim Fedorov, who is the Core Infrastructure Lead at communications giant, WhatsApp! In our chat, Maxim offers such interesting insight and wisdom from a long career in the space, focusing on Erlang and why he views it as such a powerful language for the work at WhatsApp. We also get some backstory from Maxim, looking at his first experiences with computers, his educational background, and some of the work he did leading up to his current position. Our guest does a great job of sharing his thoughts on what he sees as a lack of magic within the Erlang language, why he prefers this, and how the company has managed to scale in such a major way over the past years. We also deal with some more general questions, weighing functional languages against object-oriented ones, useful resource recommendations, and a whole lot more! We finish off this episode with a mini-interview with David Hardwick, who is the current Vice President of Engineering at STORD, so make sure to stay tuned until the end for that! Key Points From This Episode: <ul> <li>The beginnings of Maxim's interest in computer science and software development. </li> <li>How Maxim transitioned into the network security field. </li> <li>Maxim's experience with timezones and how this is approached for an app like WhatsApp.</li> <li>Thoughts on why WhatsApp is so popular outside of the United States. </li> <li>How Erlang is used at WhatsApp to power messaging. </li> <li>Probable reasons that Erlang was selected as the language for WhatsApp.</li> <li>Outages and downtime; what constitutes a serious issue for WhatsApp user experience. </li> <li>The massive growth that WhatsApp has seen and how their approach to scaling has evolved.</li> <li>Characteristics of Erlang that make it so well suited to WhatsApp's needs; simplicity and reliability. </li> <li>Maxim's perspective on the issues around programmer education and their results. </li> <li>Functional languages versus object-oriented programming; Maxim's thoughts on strengths and weaknesses.</li> <li>Why Maxim views Erlang as not containing or performing anything magical. </li> <li>Maxim's recommendations for resources when getting started in Erlang!</li> <li>Looking back at Maxim's experiences of tertiary education and the thesis he produced. </li> <li>The scaling of the WhatsApp server; the project that Maxim is most proud of!</li> <li>Maxim's love for motorcycles and bicycles and how these grew out of initial conveniences. </li> <li>Today's mini-feature interview with David Hardwick, VP of Engineering at STORD.</li> </ul> Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: SmartLogic — <a href="https://smartlogic.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://smartlogic.io/</a> Maxim Fedorov: <a href="https://au.linkedin.com/in/maxim-fedorov-14a570b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://au.linkedin.com/in/maxim-fedorov-14a570b</a> Electronika MK-61 — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_MK-52" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_MK-52</a> Brian Acton — <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/brian-acton/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/profile/brian-acton/</a> Learn You Some Erlang — <a href="https://learnyousomeerlang.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learnyousomeerlang.com/</a> Adopting Erlang — <a href="https://github.com/adoptingerlang" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/adoptingerlang</a> Joe Armstrong Thesis — <a href="https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf</a> The BEAM Book— <a href="https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook</a> ejabberd — <a href="https://www.ejabberd.im/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ejabberd.im/</a> Will Cathcart Tweet — <a href="https://twitter.com/wcathcart/status/1385253969522413568" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/wcathcart/status/1385253969522413568</a> Clarke's three laws — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws</a> Lukas Larson — <a href="https://twitter.com/garazdawi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/garazdawi</a> Erlang OTP — <a href="https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/kernel/src/pg.erl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/kernel/src/pg.erl</a> David Hardwick — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhardwick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhardwick</a> STORD — <a href="https://www.stord.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.stord.com/</a> BetterCloud — <a href="http://www.bettercloud.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.bettercloud.com/</a>Special Guest: Maxim Fedorov.

Maxim Fedorov on Building and Scaling WhatsApp with Erlang

Elixir Talk 148 - Feat Maxim FederovDesmond gives us an update on his truck and the work he’s been doing there. Chris tells us about how he’s been getting back into coding and how he’s been writing Absinthe and GraphQL.We announce a special new announcement: the launch of Elixir Training, our new business where we’re going out and looking to train more folks on Elixir across the US.We also have a special guest on the show this week: Maxim Federov a Software Engineer at WhatsApp. We dive into some of the joys of using Erlang at bonkers scale (~1.5 billion+ users), using 10k servers and attempt to ask some moderately interesting questions, that Maxim answers like a champ.Interesting links:-  https://elixirtraining.io-  Maxim’s talk about the architecture of WhatsApp: https://codesync.global/media/maxim-fedorov-scaling-erlang-cluster-to-10-000-nodes/-  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/whatsapp-scalability/-  https://erlef.org-  https://www.facebook.com/careers/areas-of-work/whatsapp/?teams%5B0%5D=WhatsApp-  https://codesync.global/media/mid-air-airplane-repair-troubleshooting-at-whatsapp/-  Live upgrade talk: https://codesync.global/media/the-art-live-upgrade-richard-carlsson/-  Hot upgrades in Elixir: https://medium.com/blackode/how-to-perform-hot-code-swapping-in-elixir-afc824860012\- Mnesia at WhatsApp: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-to-nearly-500-million-users-11000-cores-an.html- erlperf: https://github.com/max-au/erlperf

Elixir Talk 148 - Feat Maxim Federov Desmond gives us an update on his truck and the work he’s been doing there. Chris tells us about how he’s been getting back into coding and how he’s been writing Absinthe and GraphQL. We announce a special new announcement: the launch of Elixir Training, our new business where we’re going out and looking to train more folks on Elixir across the US. We also have a special guest on the show this week: Maxim Federov a Software Engineer at WhatsApp. We dive into some of the joys of using Erlang at bonkers scale (~1.5 billion+ users), using 10k servers and attempt to ask some moderately interesting questions, that Maxim answers like a champ. Interesting links: - <a href="https://elixirtraining.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://elixirtraining.io</a> - Maxim’s talk about the architecture of WhatsApp: https://codesync.global/media/maxim-fedorov-scaling-erlang-cluster-to-10-000-nodes/ - <a href="https://www.infoq.com/presentations/whatsapp-scalability/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.infoq.com/presentations/whatsapp-scalability/</a> - <a href="https://erlef.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://erlef.org</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/careers/areas-of-work/whatsapp/?teams%5B0%5D=WhatsApp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/careers/areas-of-work/whatsapp/?teams%5B0%5D=WhatsApp</a> - https://codesync.global/media/mid-air-airplane-repair-troubleshooting-at-whatsapp/ - Live upgrade talk: https://codesync.global/media/the-art-live-upgrade-richard-carlsson/ - Hot upgrades in Elixir: <a href="https://medium.com/blackode/how-to-perform-hot-code-swapping-in-elixir-afc824860012" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://medium.com/blackode/how-to-perform-hot-code-swapping-in-elixir-afc824860012</a>\ - Mnesia at WhatsApp: <a href="http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-to-nearly-500-million-users-11000-cores-an.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-to-nearly-500-million-users-11000-cores-an.html</a> - erlperf: <a href="https://github.com/max-au/erlperf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/max-au/erlperf</a>

Episode 148 feat. Maxim Fedorov - Erlang at Scale in WhatsApp