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Programming Throwdown

142: Data Ops with Douwe Maan

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Java, Programming Throwdown, Education, News, Programming Languages, How To, Tech News, C, Python

4.6604 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Douwe Maan’s journey sounds too fantastic to be true, yet the tale that Meltano’s founder shares with Jason and Patrick today is very, very real. Whether it’s about doing software development by 11, joining Gitlab while juggling college responsibilities, or building his own company during today’s challenging times, he has quite the story to tell. In today’s episode, he speaks on Twitter, his perspective on remote work, and why data operations are a critical part of developer stacks in today’s world.

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0:00.0

Programming Throwdown, Episode 142, Data Ops with DawaMahn.

0:21.4

Take it away, Jason.

0:23.1

Hey, everybody.

0:24.2

So pretty excited.

0:25.3

We have an awesome guest to talk to us about a really interesting topic that's really

0:31.1

on the vanguard of things.

0:32.6

It's data ops, which a lot of folks might have not heard of.

0:35.7

But we're going to cover that topic in depth right here today.

0:40.2

And I'm so excited that I have Dawamon on the show to,

0:44.2

he's really an expert in this field to kind of go through it with us.

0:47.3

So thanks so much for coming on the show, Dawa.

0:49.8

Thanks for having me.

0:51.0

Excited to, yeah, help your audience learn about this cool new sort of merge of data and DevOps.

0:57.8

Cool.

0:58.4

Great.

0:59.1

Yeah, really excited to have you here.

1:00.6

And before we get started, why don't we jump into, you know, kind of your background as an engineer and technologist.

1:08.7

You know, how did you get into the field and, you know, how did you

1:11.8

kind of get your first job and how did you get to where you're out right now? All right. Yeah,

1:18.2

we can go back quite a way. So when I was growing up, there were always computers around the house.

1:23.1

My father, I've been the first person and his family to have a computer. And this wasn't just a Windows machine, Internet Explorer.

1:30.3

It was always Linux of some kind.

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