WebPulp.tv Interview with Tom Preston-Werner
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Josh Owens for webpulp.tv. We talked about the GitHub architecture, Grit, BERT and Ernie, Erlang, load balancing, Redis…
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Josh Owens for webpulp.tv. We talked about the GitHub architecture, Grit, BERT and Ernie, Erlang, load balancing, Redis and MongoDB, Resque, Git-backed Wikis, open source, backups, Unicorn, EventMachine and much more. Give it a watch and subscribe to the show for more great tech interviews!
Webpulp.tv – Github – Tom Preston-Werner from Four Bean Soup on Vimeo.
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