Ardan Labs Podcast

Web Assembly, Golang, and Perl With Damian Gryski

Jan 4, 2023

01:21:14

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Is C++ the Best Programming Language?

02:10

Do You Have a Gifted Mind?

02:43

What I Remember About My First Year at University

03:19

Introduction

2min

I've Never Remembered You Working at Booking and That Was an Interesting Period

2min

Wasm, WasmTime, WebAssembly - Is That a Bug Fix?

4min

TinyGo vs Go Compiler

2min

How Old Are You in 95?

2min

You Know I Was a Programmer in Grade 9

4min

What Kind of Programming Did You Do at Home?

3min

How I Learned Complex Numbers and Themselves

2min

Do You Have a Gifted Mind?

3min

10.

You Know I Love Math and I Love Computer Science and I Love Calculus

2min

11.

Do You Like Juggling?

2min

12.

I Love Juggling

3min

13.

How I Got Into Juggling

3min

14.

Is Waterloo a Computer Science Degree?

2min

15.

College Is Harder Than High School and You Know You're Not Smart

2min

16.

What I Remember About My First Year at University

3min

17.

Internships - What Projects Did You Enjoy the Most?

3min

18.

Do You Remember When You Graduated From University?

2min

19.

NITI Net Integration Technologies Inc.

3min

20.

Did You Get Hired?

2min

21.

Is C++ the Best Programming Language?

2min

22.

How Do We Solve Streaming Quantile Support?

4min

23.

The Engineering Track at Booking

4min

24.

Graphite Reimplementation

4min

25.

Go Developer - You Could Have Goed Anywhere in 2017

3min

26.

Scaling Out TLS Infrastructure at Scale

2min

27.

Tiny Go

2min

28.

Wasm

4min

29.

Wasm Time

3min

30.

I've Had a Lot of Fun Fixing Garbage Collector Issues and I'm Not a Compiler but I Love That You're Working on Open Source

2min

31.

On Labs Podcast With Bill Kennedy and Damian Griskey

3min

Damian Gryski is a Principal Software Developer at Fastly who was highly advanced throughout his academic career and always had an interest in math. He works on TinyGo support for Fastly’s computed edge product and has been working with Golang for 10+ years. In this episode he takes us on a journey through his path to becoming an accomplished Software Engineer.

00:00 Introduction

09:30 Creating the timeline

14:25 What type of programs were you writing?

19:20 Did you struggle with math?

23:00 Being advanced in high school

24:40 What were your parents like?

26:15 Interest in juggling

30:40 Thoughts heading into university

34:00 Was university difficult?

37:44 Graduating university and internships

42:00 Post Graduate Jobs

48:50 What was exciting about writing Perl?