Story: From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Jan Collette was a project manager who went from being burnt out on corporate life to becoming one of the most sought after developers in the world. He built LZ4 and ZED standard two of the world's fastest compression algorithms which have transformed databases, operating systems and file systems. We'll go back in time to Jan's initial steps with programming, his game-changing discoveries along the way and how his devotion to data compression as a hobby led him to create something that saves billions of dollars and changes everything. This is an unforgettable career of passion that starts very simply as a hobby and it starts in Paris in the 1990s.
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