@derrickstolee used to be a mathematician, now he works in tech.

Articles

• The Story of Scalar. GitHub Blog, 2022
• Git's Database Internals I: Packed object store. GitHub Blog, 2022
• Git's Database Internals II: Commit history queries. GitHub Blog, 2022
• Git's Database Internals III: File history queries. GitHub Blog, 2022
• Git's Database Internals IV: Distributed synchonization. GitHub Blog, 2021
• Git's Database Internals V: Scalability. GitHub Blog, 2022
• Make your monorepo feel small with Git's sparse index. GitHub Blog, 2021
• Commits are snapshots, not diffs. GitHub Blog, 2020
• Introducing Scalar: Git at scale for everyone. Azure DevOps Blog, 2020
• Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout. GitHub Blog, 2020
• Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters. Azure DevOps Blog, 2018
• Supercharging the Git Commit Graph. Azure DevOps Blog, 2018

Presentations

• Git Internals: A Database Perspective [Slides] [Git Merge Video] [GitKon Video]

  How does Git store your data, and how does that relate to other database concepts? Git Merge, September 2022 and GitKon, October 2022.

• Optimize your monorepo experience [Slides] [Video]

  How can you make choices in your repository's structure to make it easier to scale? GitHub Universe, December 2020.

• Git at Scale for Everyone [Slides] [Video]

  How can we solve scale for Git? How does Scalar solve this problem? Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit, June 2020.

• Git at Scale for Everyone [Slides]

  How can we solve scale for Git? How does Scalar solve this problem? Git Merge, March 2020.

• Derrick Stolee on making Git faster, contributing to open-source, and creating win-win-win situations for all involved

  Talking about my career path, contributing to Git and open source. Software Engineering Unlocked, November 2019.

For full details, see https://stolee.dev.