Jeff Tapper: One of the challenges with all of our brands is getting them to all pick up the latest version of our components. Oddly enough, Chrome's move with Chrome55 makes my life a little bit easier. I think Flash was a great solution for its day, but its day has passed. Jeff Tapper: As you know, I was a longtime Flash developer and spent many years in the Flash world. What's your sense on the continuity of Flash and how we transition to HTML5? Tim Siglin: Just like Safari does not under Mac OS. Jeff Tapper: Right, putting up obstacles before it. Tim Siglin: One of the things we've talked to a number of people here about is sort of the massive change of mentality of Flash over the last 9 months, with Chrome 55 not supporting it. Try to build out our services as cloud data services and 12 factor apps and test-driven development. ![]() We're trying to bring more modern engineering practices. And we've got, within the central team, about a dozen and half different scrum teams running in different directions and so that's all really good. Tim Siglin: Are you doing agile, or are you doing lean? So I'm going to talk about how to build an engineering culture within a big media company, dealing with software engineering and try to work in the way that the big software companies work and to bring that into a place where it's not traditionally been found. Jeff Tapper: Interestingly enough, I've found that it's really interesting and challenging to bring an engineering culture to a big media company. What are you going to be talking about during the key note? Tim Siglin: So you're keynoting tomorrow. Any of the pieces that everyone can make use of, we build those out.Īnd then the brands are able to use those within their appliance. We build out the video players, the ad engines, the analytics, the authentication, the content management. ![]() My team is largely responsible for building out the components that are used by all of the brands. Jeff Tapper: A lot of interesting things are going on within our space at Viacom. You've been in it now for a couple of months. ![]() So Jeff, at Streaming Media East in May you just had gotten into the role there at Viacom. This is Almost Live and we've got Jeff Tapper, Senior VP of Engineering at Viacom. Sort of noisy around us, that's because it's during the reception time. Tim Siglin: We're here at Streaming Media West 2016.
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