Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 205 | Alena Hall - Prepared Mind
Alena Hall is a professional in cloud, distributed systems, real-time data programming, big data analysis, functional programming, and machine learning with more than 10 years of experience. She is also known as an author of numerous presentations and talks. Alena teaches F# and speaks at international conferences, meetups and community events. Alena finished high school by the age of 15 and by the time she was 19 she has received Master's degree in Computer Science and Information Technology. Alena is an elected member of F# Software Foundation Board of Trustees. Currently she is working at Microsoft Research on the Project Springfield team, developing a cloud service for finding availability and security critical mistakes in software.You can find her on twitter as @lenadroid.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Alena Hall
- - Growing up in Belarus
- - Lena's focus on software, the sciences, work, achievement, and motivation from a very young age
- - Alena's attitude on taking action
- - Alena's personal side
- - Project Springfield and what Alena and the team are trying to do with the project
- - Alena's ideas about dream projects - geeking out on the physical world and ways to completely reinvent manufacturing
- - The things that "light Lena up"
- - Immutability in distributed systems
- - Lena and functional programming
- - Alena's thoughts on failure and measurement of important metrics to identify problems
- - Alena's success story - quickly learning difficult things and achievement at a young age - the relative nature of success
- - How Lena stays current with what she needs to know
- - Alena's book recommendations
- - The things that cause Alena pain and suffering
- - Alena's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Lena
Resources:
- Alena's Blog
- Get In Contact With Alena
- Lena on LinkedIn
- Projefct Springfield
- You and Your Research - Dr. Richard Hamming
- Dr. Richard Hamming
- Reid Evans on Developer On Fire
- A talk from Lena: Distributed .NET microservices architecture with Kubernetes in the cloud
- A talk from Lena: Cassandra, Docker and F# Awesomeness
- A talk from Lena: Machine learning with F# and Accord.NET
- A talk from Lena: F# and MBrace with Lena Dzenisenka
- A talk from Lena: Embracing Clouds - Alena Dzenisenka
- Blockchain
- Paxos
- Raft
- Everything You Know About Latency Is Wrong - Tyler Treat
- Fallacies of distributed computing
- Phil Haack on Developer On Fire
- Scott Hanselman on Developer On Fire
- “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” -Jim Rohn
- Hofstadter's law
- Alena's Upcoming (May 2017) Talk at OSCon
- Connect with Lena at OSCon: Save 20% with code PCDF
Alena's book recommendation:
Alena's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Work on things that interest and excite you
- Learn and keep learning and don't procrastinate on self-education
- Be happy in your life outside work and work will be easier
