Peter Spiro: Building great databases. Making great teams. Leadership. WinFS. The power of having fu
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Don't get a real job until you're 30. This is Technical Fellow Peter Spiro's advice, and something he fell just short of doing. Discover how this forestry student got a job at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and then came to Microsoft to help build
the team that drove SQL Server to the huge success it is today.
How do you learn the necessary skills for leading huge projects?
Try restaurant work or being in the Peace Corps. Also, never underestimate the power of knowing how to live it up. In this episode, learn how Peter uses his passion and energy to influence technology across Microsoft while empowering talent and growing teams to produce first-rate software.
How do you learn the necessary skills for leading huge projects?
Try restaurant work or being in the Peace Corps. Also, never underestimate the power of knowing how to live it up. In this episode, learn how Peter uses his passion and energy to influence technology across Microsoft while empowering talent and growing teams to produce first-rate software.
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this is an hour video and it's a gig!
Image the years it took him to grow that one. I'm so sure this one is real.
Somehow I really enjoy listening to people with so different backgrounds. I think it's because this is so rare in the more traditional companies where you need a specific degree for a specific job.
This immediately reminded me that we do need another Bill Hill interview. The hike around the campus is still my favourite video on channel 9.
Cheers,
Martin
Good video nevertheless.
I'll try, littleguru. I'd like to dig more into where WinFS is (that is, what's become of its constituent innovations, of which there are many) and what makes SQL great, technically.
C
My manager actually dressed like him for work everyday in office!
Back to the topic, very good interview; one of the few videos that I actually sat through for an hour listening. He sure is one guy with a good work-life balance ratio
an interesting approach to management. Actually, more generally,
MS has a unique approach about creativity for software developers.
Very interesting person! Would love to see him on C9.
I guess it would explain why WinFS failed. Even in the planned 2008 release SQL Server still lacks a bunch of key features that are absolutely required for WinFS to function.
Well, may be in the next 10 years or so, it would get there.
Otherwise very interesting to watch.
I'd be really interested to hear exactly what was so impossible about it? Does anyone know of the real reason it was canned? Was it a technical challeng, perhaps to do with performance and resources, or was it more market positioning? (i.e. if you shipped WinFS inside the OS, does that cut into SQL Server's market share?).
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