Hacker News Reader

I briefly worked with Martin at my first internship (Rapportive) and he immediately stuck out as someone who goes way above and beyond the typical when thinking through hard technical problems. Haven't heard his name in a while, but I'll definitely check out this talk.

View on HN

I'll add to this gratitude thread.

Martin has had a material impact on my career. I don't think I would have gotten my job at LinkedIn if it wasn't for his book, Designing Data-Intensive book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...

I learned how to build a web application with FE, BE, DB, and distributed workers for my first job. But it wasn't until I read his book that I understood the enormous gap between building web apps and planet-scale web applications. The book saved me from bombing my interviews.

Oh hi Andrew! It's been ages, hope you're well!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com