Sessions
Hard to Hire, Hard to Learn, Hard to Break: A CTO’s Scala Case
Talk
12. October 2026, 15:00 - 15:30
Maschinenhaus
To business leadership, Scala looks like a high-risk bet: the talent is expensive and the learning curve is a wall. So why willingly sign off on a technology that makes recruiting harder? Because optimizing for cheap headcount is a false economy. This fast-paced session bridges the gap between engineering elegance and CFO mathematics. You will learn how to expose the "shadow payroll" of bloated polyglot teams, and leave armed with the exact financial vocabulary needed to prove that a lean, elite Scala team is the most aggressive risk-mitigation strategy a CTO can deploy.