Programming Throwdown, Episode 149 Workflow Engines with Sanjay Sondi Siddanti. Take it away, Patrick.

We're here with another great and exciting episode. A topic that I think we've talked around

and most people probably have the problem of needing, we already said it in intro, so it's not

spoiler. Workflow engines, we all kind of get to this thing. It's a design pattern, I guess, is almost the way of thinking about it. I think a lot of people, when you first discover design patterns, you read the first few, and you're like, these are kind of obvious. Like, why everyone make it such a big deal about software design patterns? Then you sort of start thinking more clearly about them and having

the language to describe them and be succinct, but also precise when you communicate with other

software engineers. If you don't know what I'm talking about design patterns, I think we have an

episode on them. If not, definitely Google them up and take a look at them. But I think there are

other, not captured by necessarily design patterns themselves,

but other concepts, which once you start doing practical real world software engineering,

you start to run into recurring issues. We've talked about some of them that get addressed

for things like continuous integration, continuous deployment. The reason why we talk about

those are because it's something that comes up again and again. When people don't do those things. They run into this set of problems. And it's not the only

solution, but it's a recurring and good solution. And so today we're going to talk about some things

in that same vein. And here with us today, we have Sanjay Sedante, Director of Engineering at

Acosta. Welcome to the show, Sanjay. Thank you. Thanks at Acosta welcome to the show Sanjay thank you

thanks for having me awesome we always love to start by by learning a bit about how people got to where

they are i think life story is just kind of that interesting thing maybe maybe it's because i've grown a little

more mature a little older i like hearing how people also have their own journey and also to just sort of learn the

diverse ways people end up in in jobs. It's always just fascinating to me because when people

always give career advice, there's always like this one way you do things and it's the way they

did things. And so I like, I like hearing that breadth. And so do you have, some people do, some people

don't, do you remember kind of like the first time you either like did programming or your first piece of tech or what got you really excited about this field?

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