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Interviews and reviews about Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Libraries and Software in general

How to pretend you have social skills

How to pretend you have social skills

This time I decided to do something uncommon. I have asked Martina Cantaro, a psychologist that works for our company Lambdaclass, to write…
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Aug 14
Interview with Brad Chamberlain about a productive parallel programming language called Chapel

Interview with Brad Chamberlain about a productive parallel programming language called Chapel

As you might know, I am a big fan of concurrency, parallelism and distribution but I know almost nothing about high performance computing…
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Feb 12
One does not simply build a user interface: our ClojureScript/re-frame app

One does not simply build a user interface: our ClojureScript/re-frame app

Part I of this article discussed the motivation to build HolidayPing and the design and development process of the back end Erlang…
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Dec 4, 2017
Holiday Ping: how we implemented our first open source app with Erlang and Clojurescript

Holiday Ping: how we implemented our first open source app with Erlang and Clojurescript

After almost ten years of working as a developer for different companies, two years ago I started my own company LambdaClass. I did so…
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Nov 14, 2017
Lasp: a little further down the Erlang rabbithole

Lasp: a little further down the Erlang rabbithole

A few years ago I found Lasp: “a suite of libraries aimed at providing a comprehensive programming system for planetary scale Elixir and…
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May 9, 2017
The big old reliable elephant: talking about Postgres with Craig Kerstiens

The big old reliable elephant: talking about Postgres with Craig Kerstiens

In this opportunity I interviewed Craig Kerstiens. Craig works for citusdata, a company that helps customers scale databases beyond a…
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Apr 26, 2017
Gaming with Elixir: discovering new lands in the BEAM realm

Gaming with Elixir: discovering new lands in the BEAM realm

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Apr 20, 2017
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Apr 14, 2017

A Pythonist finds a new home at Clojure land

Welcome back to another interview of Not a Monad Tutorial. In this opportunity I decided to interview Facundo Olano, a friend, a teammate, and a developer with a diverse experience. We talked about Python, Node.js, Clojure, Common Lisp and software…

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Nov 15, 2016

MLFE: ML landing in the Erlang world

Time has passed since our last interview for This is not a Monad Tutorial. OpenBSD released its 6.0 version after 20 years of continues releases without agile, OpenSSL vulnerabilities keep on breeding, Pornhub war against ad blockers continued, the Macbook Pro is…

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Feb 29, 2016

Interview with Robert Virding, creator of Lisp Flavored Erlang, an alien technology masterpiece

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Feb 22, 2016

Interview with Jay Kreps about Apache Kafka

This time we interviewed Jay Kreps, one of the creators of Apache Kafka. Kafka is an…

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Dec 29, 2015

Interview with Jesper Louis Andersen about Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Idris, the JVM, software and protocol design — PART II

This is part II of the interview with Jesper Louis Andersen. You can read part I here. This part of the interview is…

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