3. Getting Time Serious with Richie Artoul of Uber

Richie Artoul is a software engineer on Uber's Observability infrastructure team. He also really likes distributed timeseries databases, like a lot.

Find out how Richie Artoul went from bootcamp grad to infrastructure engineer at Uber, where he's now building their open source metrics platform M3 and their open source distributed timeseries database M3DB.

Charlie and Oz dive into Richie's tips for side projects, reading programming textbooks, finding mentors at work, and navigating large engineering orgs like Uber. We also learn that Richie recently took up Jiu-Jitsu (just like Oz) - and now Charlie's hoping for a Vader / Obi Wan style "roll" in their future.

Links and resources:

Optimizing MS: How Uber Halved Our Metrics Ingestion Latency by (Briefly) Forking the Go Compiler - Richie's post on the Uber engineering blog
M3 & M3DB
Nand2Tetris
Rubber duck debugging
DynamoDB paper
FoundationDB

Write a brag document - Julia Evans

Richie Artoul on Twitter

Charlie Harrington on Twitter

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