Compilers, Sourcegraph, and Golang with Thorsten Ball

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Thorsten Ball is a Staff Engineer at Sourcegraph and also the author of two self-published books. He currently focuses on assisting development teams within the company and correcting scaling issues for large clients. In this episode, he takes us through his journey from growing up in small town Germany to starting a band in Berlin and finally ending up as a Staff Engineer. 00:00 Introduction 05:30 Journey Begins 07:30 First memory of a computer 13:00 Technology in the fam...

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Arden Labs Education.
0:04.2	Sign up today to learn advanced concepts in Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more.
0:10.9	Visit Ardenlabs.com forward slash education for more information.
0:25.0	Welcome to the Arlabs podcast.
0:29.7	Our special guest today is Thorsten Ball.
0:33.7	Thorsten, thanks so much for coming on and hanging out with us today.
0:34.7	Thanks, Bill.
0:35.8	Thanks for having me.
0:36.9	Quite happy to be here. Where are you talking to us from today?
0:40.6	Oh, from my office in Germany, where I live in a small town near Frankfurt. So right in the middle of
0:48.9	Germany. Yeah, I'm looking out on my really bad lawn, but it's quite sunny out today.
0:56.0	So, yeah.
0:56.8	If I go to Germany, I've only been to Berlin, and I love Berlin.
1:00.4	I wouldn't even mind hanging out there for a year.
1:03.8	But I really haven't seen the rest of Germany.
1:06.4	Okay.
1:07.3	Yeah, Berlin's awesome.
1:08.8	Yeah, it's a, it's a special city in Germany, right?
1:13.1	Like, there's Berlin and then there's the rest of Germany.
1:16.4	So, yeah.
1:18.3	That's what I've heard.
1:20.1	Yeah.
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