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Peter Mattis

Co-founder and CTO of Cockroach Labs · Cockroach Labs

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Peter Mattis on distributed file systems, AI-assisted software development, Self-directed AI adoption. Explore 5 viewpoints by topic, with evidence from 1 source.

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Gaming as gateway to software engineering

Gaming was a little bit of a gateway drug for me as a software engineer, as many other people.

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Gaming was a little bit of a gateway drug for me as a software engineer, as many other people.
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distributed file systems

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The single-node GFS master was a bottleneck

Mattis describes the single-node GFS master as “a bit of a bottleneck.”

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There was this GFS master as a single node, and it was a bit of a bottleneck.
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Colossus stored metadata in Bigtable

Mattis says Colossus stored its metadata in Bigtable.

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And so Colossus stored its metadata inside Bigtable.
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AI-assisted software development

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Tools can help explore design ideas

Mattis says the tools under discussion can help people explore design ideas.

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They're also good at like helping you explore design ideas.
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Self-directed AI adoption

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Learn by using the tools yourself

Mattis urges people to keep using the tools themselves—and to use them to learn.

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You just got to get in there, be using these tools all the time yourself, and use it to learn.
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