Programming Throwdown, Episode 96, Continuous Integration with Rob Zuber.

Take it away, Jason. Hey, everybody. I'm here with Rob Zuber. Take it away, Jason.

Hey everybody, I'm here with Rob Zuber, CTO of Circle CI. And we're going to be talking all about

continuous integration. And that might be a term not a lot of people are familiar with, but we have

a world-renowned expert here who's going to exploit it in detail so why

did you tell us before we jump into continuous integration and testing and all of that tell us

sort of what kind of led you down this road what's sort of your background and and how did you

end up uh ctio of circle CI yeah I'll try to make that a short story.

I've been in the industry quite a while.

So a few different points that I would make along the trail.

So I grew up in Toronto.

I went to school at a college called Queens University and studied engineering physics.

Graduated, went into manufacturing of all things, was working on computers, stuff, and then

some friends of mine started a company in the late 90s, you know, the original dot-com boom, and they said,

hey, we need more people. Literally, literally like nobody really that that wasn't a

known thing at the time and so they just they anybody they knew that they thought they could

convince to come and work for nothing you know they were interested in and so that was basically

that's how i got into software i just showed up and they were totally tolerant of my ignorance

because i just needed to learn some things and and just needed, you know, they needed people.

So did they give you, I've heard crazy stories about the dot com era? I mean, did they give you like a Porsche on your first day or something like that?

I think that's dot com California.

Dotcom Toronto was much more reserved.

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