
Git with Derrick Stolee
PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket
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The Importance of Graph Theory in Computer Science
Git data is essentially two tables if you think about it as a database. The refs give us pointers into that object store, which is then a graph that refers within to itself. It's just really something that works with my skill set, works with the way my brain works and it's just really exciting to work on. And I'm very attracted to problems that can be solved from the very bare bones, right? Like working in C and dealing with data structures that we have to write to disk and read from a memory map. If you learn a little bit about your database and you ask it the right questions, you can do really cool things and really scalable Things.
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