Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

82: Teach all the things (Matt Knox)


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This week's episode features Matt Knox of Twitter. Matt is a part of Twitter's university team which teaches new Twitter recruits about the company. He works as an engineer as well in order to stay current. Matt discusses his background as an engineer, and how he got into teaching. He discusses using Storm, essentially a real-time Hadoop, for Twitter. Ben and Matt talk about the importance of keeping a portfolio as a programmer and deliberate practice routines for coding, and more.

  • Matt Knox's Github
  • Matt Knox's Blog
  • Storm
  • Hadoop
  • The Things They Carry
  • On the Fundamentals of Programming
  • Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @mattknox on twitter.

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