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Paul Biggar - Dark

Oct 28, 2022
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ANECDOTE

CircleCI Born From Frustrating CI

  • Paul founded CircleCI after struggling with a poor CI server at Mozilla.
  • He improved developer workflow by adding features like retrying builds with the same environment.
INSIGHT

Remove Infrastructure As The Default

  • Dark aims to remove incidental infrastructure complexity from backend development.
  • It treats input, computation, and data as the essential primitives and hides servers, deployment, and infra details.
INSIGHT

Database And Code As One Language

  • Dark unifies database schema, queries and application code in one language to remove impedance mismatches.
  • Queries compile down to SQL but appear as native language constructs to the developer.
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