Distributed databases with Peter Mattis
Summary
How is it that a software veteran who regularly shipped ~100K of database-grade code to production each year, pre-AI, feels like he’s even more productive today, with no drop in quality? Peter Mattis
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met Larry and Sergey from Google. Somehow one of them looked me up, asked me to come interview at Google >> when Google was three years old. >> Three years old. And uh I said, "No, >> you did not." >> I've always been a very prolific coder. I look back at my GitHub output. It's like peak years, maybe 100,000 lines of code in a year. PreI, right? This is when you're back doing this manually. I kind of look at that, it's like there's kind of a max that you can hold in your head at a time. We did your coding in classes. That was kind of a big breakthrough. You have nine chunks of data, but any five of those chunks can be used to reconstruct it. And what this means is you can lose any four copies and you can still reconstruct your data. >> What do you think good software engineering looks toda…