Alex Payne

Alex Payne
Engineer, Twitter

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Alex Payne is API Lead at Twitter, a social network of individuals sharing short status updates via the web, SMS, IM, and an extremely popular API. Since taking on the support and development of Twitter’s API, the service has grown to hundreds of millions of requests per day. Alex’s background is in web application development and information security, and his code has powered mission-critical operations, political campaigns, and non-profit initiatives. Alex lives and works in San Francisco.

Sessions

9:40am Wednesday, 04/01/2009
Why Scala?
Development
 Location: 2002
Alex Payne (Twitter)
Making the case for the Scala programming language as an ideal tool for building the architecture of Web 2.0. Read more.
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