Making Git faster with Derrick Stolee

In this episode, I talk to Derrick Stolee, a principal software engineer at Microsoft who makes sure the Git version control system is lightning fast.

We talk about: - his career switch from being a professor to become a software engineer at Microsoft,  - what it means to contribute to open-source during your worktime for Microsoft, - how he improves the speed and performance of such a widely-used and mature software system as Git, - how to do code reviews via mailing lists, - and what it takes to become an open-source maintainer.