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Jan 23, 2024 • 1h 11min
S5E7 - UK Post Office Horizon Scandal
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/

Nov 23, 2023 • 1h 11min
S5E6 - Rama and its Clojure API — with Nathan Marz, Founder & CEO of Red Planet Labs
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".

Nov 10, 2023 • 1h 9min
S5E5 - Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms
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.
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Aug 29, 2023 • 1h 12min
S5E4 - JUXT Cast Special with Kent Beck
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.

Jul 13, 2023 • 31min
S5E3 - JUXT 10-Year Anniversary, Babashka Conf 2023, XTDB Update, and Post-Agile
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

Jun 29, 2023 • 49min
S5E2 - Data Sovereignty, SaaS Overuse, and Central Datastores
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.

May 15, 2023 • 36min
S5E1 - Post-Conj Roundup, Databases, and the LLM era
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&index=2
“Clojure Isp: One tool to lint them all” by Eric Dallo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxcNrjKL2WA&list=PLZdCLR02grLpIQQkyGLgIyt0eHE56aJqd&index=18
“A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks” by Ted Codd: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

Dec 7, 2022 • 12min
S4E15 - Strange Loop Edition: A chat with Micah Martin
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: @slagyr
Github: @slagyr

Nov 30, 2022 • 0sec
S4E14 - Strange Loop Edition: A chat with Derek Troy-West
Episode Notes
Kpow for Apache Kafka: https://kpow.io/
Factor House: https://factorhouse.io/
Slipway: https://github.com/factorhouse/slipway
Apache ECharts: https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html
LinkedIn: @dtw
Github: @_d_t_w

Nov 28, 2022 • 11min
S4E13 - Strange Loop Edition: A chat with Jennifer Krieger
Episode Notes
Strange Loop: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/