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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. In this engaging discussion, Gene reflects on his career journey, from his t...

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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 appeal of dynamic typing in modern software practices.

The team explores how...

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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 Production Systems" (2016).

In this podcast episode, we discussed Nia...

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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 the foreward (https://sre.google/sre-book/foreword/) to Google's 2016 book: &q...

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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 ORMs.

Lukas has been developing jOOQ since 2009 and has diligently supporte...

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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 many problems it attempts to solve on his blog. These problems include the basi...

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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 storage. [0]

In this episode we discussed a paper that Viktor recently co-a...

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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 integrity of the technology that we use and trust.

The JUXT team — Malcolm Sp...

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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.

Soon after this announcement, we invited Nathan as a guest on the JUXTCast to...

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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 Databases" — as mentioned by Joe at the top of the episode.

This podc...

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• '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-CjQqDu1AVhGdGOoEqsSAhd2W6t
• XTDB: https://www.xtdb.com/
• JUXT 10-Year Anniversa...

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• 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&index=2
• “Clojure Isp: One tool to lint them all” by Eric Da...

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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 ‘Real World Ocaml: Functional programming for the Masses’ book: https://ww...