From Meta to Microservices: Engineering Insights with Ian Gartley
I talk with former Meta Principal Engineer, Ian Gartley on a variety of topics.
I host a weekly(ish) podcast called the Continuous Delivery Podcast. I haven’t posted the episodes here, but do want to point people to it in case they are interested.
For the latest episode, I spoke with Ian Gartley, Principal Engineer from Varo Bank, formerly of Meta and RBC on a variety of topics. The timestamps below are approximate.
00:00 - Putting “Ex-Meta” on LinkedIn Profiles
02:15: What makes a good intermediate developer hiring interview question? / MVP Architectures
11:30 - Challenges with MicroServices / Convenience of Sidecars
23:30 - Orchestration Layers, GraphQL and Distributed Queries
32:00: Why does it take 10 different engineers to make one change?
49:15: Functional programming languages encouraging better testing patterns / mocking private functions / creator/mutator pattern
61:03: Whose job is it to write requirements?
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