3 ms·
I happened to know RedPanda founder back in the days he was at Concord.io (as a founder and a main dev). The level of obsession with performance and optimizatio
by divan 4y ago
I happened to know RedPanda founder back in the days he was at Concord.io (as a founder and a main dev). The level of obsession with performance and optimization of this guy was insane. He's not only extremelly skilled with C++, but also very passionate about rethinking large and complex systems and rebuilding them to enable 10-100x speed improvements. It's like his personal hobby – take a piece of software everyone use, and optimize it to the limits of physics, usually by implementing better version from scratch himself :) Plus, he's an excellent communicator. Watching their team working I was always thinking that successful companies can be built only with that level of passion and expertise in a single package.
- omginternets 4y agoDoes he give conference talks that I might find on YouTube?
- divan 4y agoHa, good question. There are some: Alex & Kelsey Hightower talk for intro: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXpkRR2sJbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXpkRR2sJbc Some talks (haven't watched them, super geeky): [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPTt1ny67x4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPTt1ny67x4 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyN4vrLGjxo& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyN4vrLGjxo& [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFOZx7dP9sc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFOZx7dP9sc [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXJhmWnSzc0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXJhmWnSzc0
- shaklee3 4y agoand they hired Travis Downs, who is probably even more knowledgeable about optimization.