From Git Blame to Principal Engineer with Sage Pierce | Ep. 22

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Adi Polak interviews Sage Pierce about his career in software engineering and event-driven architectures.

Adi Polak talks to Sage Pierce (Indeed) about his career in software engineering and event-driven architectures. Sage’s first job: Java Swing development at a Department of Defense–affiliated research lab. His challenge: working at Indeed on event-driven views and IMI to join data across domains in a polyglot microservices world. Sage's Atleon project: https://github.com/atleon SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter ...

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Hosts: Adi Polak, Tim Berglund, Viktor Gamov

Guest: Sage Pierce

Topics covered

• software engineering
• event-driven architectures
• microservices

Keywords

• Java Swing
• Department of Defense
• Indeed
• Atleon
• polyglot

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Java Swing, Atleon

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