Episode 43 - Mapping the World and Testing Against Reality with Eric Bowman
08/31/21 • 27 min
Today we have Eric Bowman, CTO at TomTom, former VP Engineering at Zalando, and a developer behind the game "The Sims". In this episode, we discuss how mapping technology has changed the world and how CI/CD practices have made real-time mapping possible.
🎧 Key Takeaways
- How long before self-driving cars are a reality?
- How satellite and map technology changed the world?
- The challenges of building and testing real-time maps.
- How feedback loops add value to developers and customers.
- Using DevOps and CI/CD to improve your products.
Listen to our entire conversation above, and check out my favorite parts in the episode highlights!
Today we have Eric Bowman, CTO at TomTom, former VP Engineering at Zalando, and a developer behind the game "The Sims". In this episode, we discuss how mapping technology has changed the world and how CI/CD practices have made real-time mapping possible.
🎧 Key Takeaways
- How long before self-driving cars are a reality?
- How satellite and map technology changed the world?
- The challenges of building and testing real-time maps.
- How feedback loops add value to developers and customers.
- Using DevOps and CI/CD to improve your products.
Listen to our entire conversation above, and check out my favorite parts in the episode highlights!
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