Programming Throwdown, Episode 143, Devolution of Search with Marcus Egan.

Take it away, Patrick.

Welcome to another episode of the show, everybody.

It's kind of crazy watching the ticker on the episode count go up and up.

I always forget how many of these we've done.

It's too many now.

We're excited to be here with Marcus.

Marcus is the staff product manager for Atlas Search at MongoDB. Welcome to the show, Marcus.

Thank you. Happy to be here. Though we were doing a little bit of pre-show recording, I know we kind of hinted

that sometimes. We already got pretty excited. Marcus was helping us understand search. Something that

personally I've already knows like Google, right? Search

Engine, but even though I've done database stuff before, my search always amounts to like

equals equals checks and even getting those wrong because it turns out, yeah, anyways,

it's difficult. So I'm excited to learn some stuff today and I'm glad Marcus is here to help us

through this. But before we dig into that, we always like to ask people kind of how you got into tech, your story, kind of like, you know, origin story, Marvel superhero, whatever it wants to be. I can be kind of boring. It's all right. But like, Marcus, how did you kind of like first get into tech? Was there like a moment you remember as like, this is the first time I got excited about computers or programming or?

Yeah, yeah, like when I was about 11 years old, I was like taking apart for the fourth time my family's desktop computer.

Just like opening it up.

Like I got some tools, waited till my mom was

gone from work and my dad was cooking. And I started unscrewing like the panel. It was a compact

computer. I remember like it was yesterday. And like when my mom got back from work, you know, I knew I had the same corporal punishment

coming to me that I had the first three times.

And I wish I didn't mind.

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