Episode Notes In this engaging episode of the JUXT Cast, Jeremy Taylor and Malcolm Sparks sit down with Ryan Robitaille, the founder of Rabbit, https://github.com/ryrobes/rvbbit. Ryan shares his unique journey—from working with Oracle systems as a young Solutions Engineer to becoming a creative force in the world of data visualization. Ryan explore…

Episode Notes This latest episode of the JUXTCast features Gene Kim, a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, celebrated researcher, and multiple award-winning Chief Technology Officer. Gene is widely recognized for his contributions to the DevOps movement and for co-authoring influential works such as The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook. …

Episode Notes In this episode, JUXT’s CEO Jon Pither, CTO Malcolm Sparks, and Head of Delivery Joe Littlejohn, are joined by guest Software Engineer Jake Howard to engage in a thoughtful discussion on the enduring static vs dynamic typing debate. While static typing has long been a staple in programming, the conversation leans toward the growing ap…

Episode Notes Our guest is Niall Murphy, CEO of Stanza - a company founded by a group of experienced SREs with a vision to provide the tools, coding platform, culture and community to give any organization industry-leading reliability. Niall previously worked at Google where he co-authored the book "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Pro…

Episode Notes In this podcast episode, JUXT CTO Malcolm Sparks, JUXT Head of Delivery Joe Littlejohn, and XTDB Head of Product Jeremy Taylor spoke with guest Mark Burgess, an independent researcher and writer. Formerly a professor at Oslo University College in Norway and the creator of the CFEngine software and company, Mark was invited to write th…

Episode Notes Our guest is Lukas Eder, creator of jOOQ (https://jooq.org/) - a fluent Java API for SQL building and execution. In this episode, JUXT Head of Product Jeremy Taylor and Lukas Eder discuss the often under-appreciated power and significance of SQL for developers, and how Lukas' jOOQ library helps Java developers sidestep the pitfalls of…

Episode Notes Our guest is András Gerlits, founder of OmniLedger - a technology for simplifying distributed consistency across systems. In this episode we discussed the various interpretations of the idea of ‘consistency’ in software and technology more generally. András has been developing OmniLedger for several years and has written about the man…

Episode Notes Our guest is Prof. Viktor Leis, a Full Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Munich. His research revolves around designing high-performance data management systems and includes core database systems topics such as query processing, query optimization, transaction processing, index structures, and…

Episode Notes Beyond the headlines, this JUXTCast episode exposes the intricate challenges in managing and securing complex IT systems, providing a more detailed understanding of the Horizon scandal, and hopefully serving as a straightforward reminder for individuals and organizations to stay vigilant and proactive in ensuring the reliability and i…

Episode Notes In October 2023, Nathan Marz announced the Clojure API to Rama, a new programming platform for building distributed applications that was released last August. Red Planet Labs revealed Rama for the first time by building and operating a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance that’s 100x less code than Twitter wrote to build the equivalent. S…

Episode Notes In this episode, JUXT Head of Delivery, Joe Littlejohn, is joined by JUXT software engineers Aaron Knauf and Mariusz Saternus to talk Platform Engineering, and their experiences delivering effective developer platforms in large tech organisations. Link to Jeremy Taylor's webinar "Bitemporality and the Art of Maintaining Accurate Datab…

Episode Notes In this episode, Jeremy Taylor, James Henderson, and Malcolm Sparks are joined by Kent Beck to discuss programming, bitemporality, and the state of Agile. For more insights, please visit this post about the podcast.

Episode Notes 'The Holy War' song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kcOfWSDEjg 'A first look at the XT20 venue': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xt4PsvZO8w Banking Transformation Summit: https://bankingtransformationsummit.com/ Babashka Conf: https://babashka.org/conf/ Babashka Talks 2023: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaN-rC-CjQqDu1AVhGd…

Episode Notes This podcast episode focuses on some topics that are mentioned in S5E1 "Post-Conj Roundup, Databases, and the LLM era": https://pinecast.com/listen/dc20b264-48cd-4f84-8291-d60dfc4801ab.mp3.

Episode Notes Clojure Conj: https://2023.clojure-conj.org/ “Design by Pratice” by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5QF2HjHLSE&list=PLZdCLR02grLpIQQkyGLgIyt0eHE56aJqd&index=1 “Vector Symbolic Architectures in Clojure” by Carin Meier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ygjfbBJD0&list=PLZdCLR02grLpIQQkyGLgIyt0eHE56aJqd&inde…

Episode Notes Micah Martin: http://micahmartin.com/8thlight: https://8thlight.com/Clean Coders Studio: https://cleancoders.com/Uncle Bob on Twitter (https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin)Uncle Bob on Github (https://github.com/unclebob)Limelight: http://micahmartin.com/limelight/rdoc/Speclj: https://github.com/slagyr/speclj Twitter: @slagyrGithub: @sl…

Episode Notes Kpow for Apache Kafka: https://kpow.io/Factor House: https://factorhouse.io/Slipway: https://github.com/factorhouse/slipwayApache ECharts: https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html LinkedIn: @dtwGithub: @_d_t_w

Episode Notes Strange Loop: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/

Episode Notes Papers We love: https://paperswelove.org/PDFxStream: https://www.snowtide.com/Metacrawler: https://www.metacrawler.com/pdfQL: https://www.pdfdata.com/Chemerick.com: https://cemerick.com/‘Clojure Programming: Practical Lisp for the Java World’ book: https://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Practical-Lisp-World-ebook/dp/B007Q4T040‘Rea…

Episode Notes Felinne Hermans: "Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)Focus Retreat Center: https://focusretreatcenter.com/ Twitter: @focusretreatsInstagram: @focusretreat.centerFacebook: @focusretreat.centerLinkedIn: @focusretreatcenter

Episode Notes Veradept: https://veradept.com/elm-conf: https://2020.elm-conf.com/about‘Waltzing with Bears’ book: https://www.amazon.com/Waltzing-Bears-Managing-Software-Projects/dp/0932633609‘Software Estimation’ book: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Developer-Practices/dp/0735605351DoomCheck: https://doomcheck.com/Twitter:…

Episode Notes Dave Yarwood's Talk in 2019 about Alda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hUihVWdgW0&ab_channel=StrangeLoopConferenceGithub repo: https://github.com/daveyarwood/alda-clj“Learn You a Haskell for Great Good” book: http://learnyouahaskell.com/John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”: https://rhino.lnk.to/giantsteps60“Structure and Interpretation…

Episode Notes Talk: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2022/writing-a-mobile-app-with-clojuredart.htmlRoam Research: https://roamresearch.com/Flutter: https://flutter.dev/https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDartClojurians Slack channel: #clojuredartYouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCkvOkh6pXzYqkFKDgoyWRg Twitter: @cgrand@BaptisteDup…

Episode Notes "The Early Days of id Software: Programming Principles" by John Romero (Strange Loop 2022)Semantic Versioning - Rust: https://docs.rs/semver/latest/semver/Trustfall: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfallCargo-semver-check: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/cargo-semver-check“Crafting Interpreters” book: https://craftinginterpr…

Episode Notes Sarah Withee’s website: https://geekygirlsarah.com/Code Thesaurus: https://github.com/codethesaurusHacktoberFest 2022: https://hacktoberfest.com/Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/ Twitter: @geekygirlsarahGitHub: @geekygirlsarahLinkedIn: @sarahwithee

Episode Notes CloudFlare - https://www.cloudflare.com/Balto - https://www.balto.ai/“The Evolution of a Planetary-scale Distributed Database" by Kevin Scaldeferri (Strange Loop 2022)” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWR9QyhQEasBenson Hill - https://bensonhill.com/Stlgo Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/StL-Go/Venture Cafe - https://venturecafestloui…

Episode Notes Jared Smith http://jaredmsmith.com ElmConf - https://2019.elm-conf.com/JavaScript Fatigue ELM https://elm-lang.org/Semantic Versioning https://semver.org/Atom Editor https://atom.io/ Email: [email protected]: https://mobile.twitter.com/absynce

Episode Notes Felix GV's talk at Strange Loop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJeg4V3JgYo) "Open Sourcing Venice – LinkedIn’s Derived Data Platform" by Felix GV (https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2022/open-sourcing-venice--linkedin-s-derived-data-platform) Venice in Github (https://github.com/linkedin/venice) Felix GV on Twitter: @felixgvFelix…

Episode Notes Uncle Bob Wikipedia intro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Martin) Clean Code book (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882) Clojure Polymorphism (https://8thlight.com/blog/myles-megyesi/2012/04/26/polymorphism-in-clojure.html) Persistent Data Structures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Episode Notes “Monad I Love You Now Get Out Of My Type System” (https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2022/monad-i-love-you-now-get-out-of-my-type-system.htm not yet released on Youtube, check here https://www.youtube.com/c/StrangeLoopConf/videos)There are many monads tutorial, enough to deserve a timeline(https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad_tutorials_timeline…

Episode Notes JUXT is a Platinum Sponsor of Strange Loop 2022. From September 22nd, you’ll find us in the JUXT booth at the Union Station in St. Louis, MO. Come visit!

It’s a pleasure to have our friends Dominic Monroe and Ray McDermott (from Defn podcast) join us in this episode and share their aspirations for the future of software. Ray’s vision includes a new editor in Clojure for Clojure called 'REPL-acement'. Find out more below and make sure to stop by Ray's talk at the :clojureD conference on the 11th of J…

The separation of storage and compute is a key industry trend impacting all kinds of organisations and is acutely important for the design of modern database systems. In this episode, we discuss how general desires for increased availability, better scalability, and lower costs, has heavily influenced our own plans for XTDB's future 2.0 architectur…

Juxtaposed against some software of the 90s like Microsoft Access, Lotus Notes, and Visual Basic, there is a distinct contrast in our current world. Malcolm argues that with today's fixation on Continuous Deployment, software has become static, brittle, and inflexible. In this episode, we talk about how users have consequently become disempowered. …

In this episode, we dive into the concept of a 'record’. We examine what makes records technically superior to triples and tables and go back in time to uncover humanity’s long-standing preference for simple records.

Episode Notes Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. BBN was selected by ARPA to build an Interface Message Processor (IMP) for the ARPANET Julie took over Ray Tomlinson’s first email system Intelpost SICP Instructor's Manual I Can Read That! A Traveler's Introduction to Chinese Characters Introduction to Algorith…

Episode Notes Generative Art Procedural Generation Cellular Automata A New Kind of Science loop-recur Clojure The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch Ella’s talk at re:Clojure

Episode Notes Commodore 64 Commodore Basic Kent Beck Gifski Mob Programming Threading Macros Parkour Salute to the Sun - Matthew Halsall David’s Talk at re:Clojure

Episode Notes American museum of natural history in Manhattan Ham radio operators QST magazines Vacuum tube IBM 650/620 computers Joel Moses at Columbia Drum memory Biquinary encoding IBM 709 Vacuum tubes computer Marvin Minsky Claude Shannon IPL V interpreter by Carnegie Mellon Bill Gosper Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual PDP-6 MacLisp Macsyma, symbol…

Episode Notes Freshcode Rich Hickey Emacs Haskell Common Lisp StarCraft 2 Victor Pelevin

Episode Notes It was a great pleasure to speak again with our friend @ericnormand about Alan Kay, Lisp, Mr Wizard, Logo and much more! Enjoy! Mr Wizard TV TV series The Logo programming language Alan Kay The TCP/IP stack Paul Graham Essays The 50th anniversary of Lisp conference The Little Schemer book by Dan Friedman Frequencies clojure function G…

Episode Notes Welcome (back) @JohannaAntone10 to the podcast! We spoke about Clojure, Richard Feynman, stonemasonry and much more! Enjoy! Richard Feynman Stonemasonry The Kingkiller Chronicle book recommendation JUXT Libraries on github.

Episode Notes VLSI Very large-scale (circuit) integration William Byrd on The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written Mini Kanren StarCraft Videogame. Tony Hoare Codeq Rich Hickey's project structural version control project. Unison language Clojure Transducers Factorio game Eudemonia Aristotelian concept of happiness Naked Performance (with Clojure) a…

Episode Notes Babashka scripting language West Coast Swing dance type? One Piece Japanese manga by Eiichiro Oda Linear Algebra Neanderthal linear algebra library. DType-Next Next generation high performance Clojure toolkit.

Episode Notes Tablecloth Clojure library for columnar data handling Daniel Higginbotham wrote the awesome Clojure for the Brave and True. Rayman and PokemonGo videogames Are you there Wodka It's me Chelsea book recommendation Haifa is about 100 kilometers north of Tel Aviv in Israel.

Episode Notes dvc pmap Dune

Episode Notes Mathematica Ruby On Rails Georg Cantor R Haskell Scala OCaml Hammock Driven Development Comp Rockhounding Valheim Burn After Reading The Big Lebowski Breakfast of Champions The Bad Plus Oz

Episode Notes Stephen Wolfram: Official Website (https://www.stephenwolfram.com/) Wolfram: Computation Meets Knowledge (https://www.wolfram.com/) Wolfram Language: Programming with Built-in Computational Intelligence (https://www.wolfram.com/language/?source=frontpage-carousel) The Wolfram Physics Project: Finding the Fundamental Theory of Physics …

Episode Notes Rich Hickey’s Guitars IEEE Magazine One of the earliest papers mentioning Clojure Graham Hutton about the universality of fold Cuban band Elito Reve French Synthwave artist Carpenter Brut and his release party Deep learning library Deep Diamond Alan Kay on software engineering as pop culture Interactive Programming for AI Books…

Episode Notes Prince of Persia Joe Armstrong @ Strange Loop Megaman Neovim Lua Docker Kubernetes Sandworm - A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers