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Simon Willnauer - Cofounder of Elastic & Berlin Buzzwords (#35)
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Simon Willnauer.
Simon is one of the main developers of Apache Lucene and a Lucene committer. He is also a PMC member and Apache Software Foundation member.
Simon has led Elasticsearch's core development for over five years and co-founded the Berlin Buzzwords conference on search, store, and scalability.
Click Here –> For more information about tech careers
Episode Summary
"The big common denominator between concurrency problems and other big problems is that they usually are not solved in front of the computer"
—Simon Willnauer
In this episode we’ll cover:
- The founding stories of Elasticsearch and Berlin Buzzwords!
- What is the future of search? Why is Java limited in its capabilities?
- Why the most challenging computer problems are best solved AWAY from the computer. Simon has had breakthroughs while running!
Key Milestones
[1:43] – Simon wrote his first line of code when he was 22. He was working at a computer security company when he got introduced to Lucene. Open source captured Simon's attention, and a few years later, he co-founded Elasticsearch
[7:23] – Simon was a mechanic before going to university. He got into coding because it was creative and had endless possibilities.
[9:43] – Simon mentions his early career mentors. Now, as a mentor himself, Simon points out that mentorship is bidirectional: he always learns from his mentees as well.
[12:39] – Solving challenging problems involves making a mental model and solving them away from the computer. Simon solves many problems while exercising!
[15:15]- The founding stories of Elasticsearch and Berlin Buzzwords!
[18:59] – What goes into running Berlin Buzzwords? Hint: running a conference is stressful!
[24:22] – What were the difficulties in founding Elasticsearch?
[28:09] - How to deal with founding a company and dealing with handing responsibility to others. At first. it's challenging, but success is when the company can run without you at the center of it.
[31:08] - What is the future of search? Why is Java limited in its capabilities? It's great that we're increasing computing power, but we also must change the way we think about search
[37:29] - The importance of Lucene and how many companies and products are inspired by it.
You can find more resources and a full transcript in the show notes
To learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/
To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/
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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Simon Willnauer.
Simon is one of the main developers of Apache Lucene and a Lucene committer. He is also a PMC member and Apache Software Foundation member.
Simon has led Elasticsearch's core development for over five years and co-founded the Berlin Buzzwords conference on search, store, and scalability.
Click Here –> For more information about tech careers
Episode Summary
"The big common denominator between concurrency problems and other big problems is that they usually are not solved in front of the computer"
—Simon Willnauer
In this episode we’ll cover:
- The founding stories of Elasticsearch and Berlin Buzzwords!
- What is the future of search? Why is Java limited in its capabilities?
- Why the most challenging computer problems are best solved AWAY from the computer. Simon has had breakthroughs while running!
Key Milestones
[1:43] – Simon wrote his first line of code when he was 22. He was working at a computer security company when he got introduced to Lucene. Open source captured Simon's attention, and a few years later, he co-founded Elasticsearch
[7:23] – Simon was a mechanic before going to university. He got into coding because it was creative and had endless possibilities.
[9:43] – Simon mentions his early career mentors. Now, as a mentor himself, Simon points out that mentorship is bidirectional: he always learns from his mentees as well.
[12:39] – Solving challenging problems involves making a mental model and solving them away from the computer. Simon solves many problems while exercising!
[15:15]- The founding stories of Elasticsearch and Berlin Buzzwords!
[18:59] – What goes into running Berlin Buzzwords? Hint: running a conference is stressful!
[24:22] – What were the difficulties in founding Elasticsearch?
[28:09] - How to deal with founding a company and dealing with handing responsibility to others. At first. it's challenging, but success is when the company can run without you at the center of it.
[31:08] - What is the future of search? Why is Java limited in its capabilities? It's great that we're increasing computing power, but we also must change the way we think about search
[37:29] - The importance of Lucene and how many companies and products are inspired by it.
You can find more resources and a full transcript in the show notes
To learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/
To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/
Follow Simon Willnauer
Twitter: @s1m0nw
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/simonwillnauer/
Github: github.com/s1monw
Follow Develomentor:
Twitter: @develomentor
Follow Grant Ingersoll
Twitter: @gsingers
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grant
Support the show