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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 storage. [0] In this episode we discussed a paper that Viktor recently co-authored with Thomas Neumann, titled "A Critique of Modern SQL And A Proposal Towards A Simple and Expressive Query Language", for CIDR 2024. [2] Beyond the specifics of SQL, many other topics are touched on also including: machine learning in the database, a critique of PostgreSQL, and the potential for massive performance gains in the world of practical database systems. Notes: [0] https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/dis/team/prof-dr-viktor-leis/ [1] https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/papers/p48-neumann.pdf [2] https://github.com/neumannt/saneql/ [3] https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/dis/research/leanstore/ [4] https://www.dbos.dev/blog/announcing-dbos

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 integrity of the technology that we use and trust. The JUXT team — Malcolm Sparks (CTO), Joe Littlejohn (Head of Delivery) and Alex Davis (Senior Software Engineer) — were joined by Andras Gerlits, adding an important perspective to the conversation: Andras Gerlits' work: http://omniledger.io/ Andras Gerlits' blog: https://andrasgerlits.medium.com For more insights on this episode, please check out Malcolm's post: https://www.juxt.pro/blog/juxtcast-horizon/

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. Soon after this announcement, we invited Nathan as a guest on the JUXTCast to find out more. In this episode, we delve into some of the conceptual foundations of Rama, the influence the Clojure language has had on its design and discuss some of the many difficult problems Nathan and his team have had to solve in the course of developing Rama. Not to be missed! For more information about Rama and it's Clojure API, you can read this post on Red Planet Labs blog: "Introducing Rama’s Clojure API: build end-to-end scalable backends in 100x less code".

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 Databases" — as mentioned by Joe at the top of the episode. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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-CjQqDu1AVhGdGOoEqsSAhd2W6t XTDB: https://www.xtdb.com/ JUXT 10-Year Anniversary Talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrCB9bq0iVIpI2Tz7F0gZM5PDigchRFXF