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Soss: Probabilistic Programming with Julia
An interview with its creator, Chad Scherrer
NuShell: the shell where traditional Unix meets modern development, written in Rust
We interviewed its creators
A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory
Or how to be a hardcore Guess Who gamer
Interview with Noria’s creator: a promising dataflow research database implemented in Rust
After reading Tensorflow’s original paper I learnt that four of its authors were authors of Microsoft Naiad’s research paper too. Naiad…
Weld: accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM
After working for weeks with Python’s data science stack and R I started to ask my self if there could not be a common intermediate…
Interview with Dask’s creator: Scale your Python from one computer to a thousand
My love for building distributed systems with Erlang, databases and fetching huge volumes of data still lives on. But nowadays I want to…
Interview with Will Kurt on his latest book: Bayesian Statistics The Fun Way
As most devs I have a diverse set of interests: functional programming, operating systems, type systems, distributed systems, and data…
Sonic: a minimalist alternative to Elasticsearch written in Rust
Database implementation sits in a nice spot between computer science and software engineering. There are lot of tradeoffs to consider…
An interview with the creator of Gleam: an ML like language for the Erlang VM with a compiler…
I have been writting soft real time systems with Erlang for almost a decade and for that task I think it is the best tool we have around…
How to earn your Macroeconomics and Finance white belt (as a software developer)
I was always interested in economics. However until a few years ago I never really studied finance. Since I decided to change that, I have…
Interview with Osvaldo Martin about Bayesian Analysis with Python
Like our previous interviewee Osvaldo Martin is one of the developers of PyMC3 and ArviZ. He is a researcher specialized in Bayesian…
Inteview with Thomas Wiecki about Probabilistic programming and PyMC
After studying and working with distributed systems my interests drifted into data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and…
There’s more to life than HTTP: VerneMQ a high-performance and distributed MQTT broker
At LambdaClass and our blog This is not a Monad tutorial we are a big fans of exploring new topics, different operating systems, platforms…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gaming with Elixir: discovering new lands in the BEAM realm
In this opportunity I interviewed somebody I don’t normally interview: a client, Chris Jimison, CTO of Merigo. One of my clients. After working for almost a yea…
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…
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…
Interview with Robert Virding, creator of Lisp Flavored Erlang, an alien technology masterpiece
This time I interviewed Robert Virding, co-creator of Erlang and creator of Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE). I am an Erlang developer and Lisp…
Interview with Jay Kreps about Apache Kafka
This time we interviewed Jay Kreps, one of the creators of Apache Kafka. Kafka is an open source messaging system with a few design choices…
Interview with Jesper Louis Andersen about Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Idris, the JVM, software and…
This is part II of the interview with Jesper Louis Andersen. You can read part I here. This part of the interview is mostly about Erlang…
Interview with Jesper Louis Andersen about Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Idris, the JVM, software and…
In this occasion we interviewed Jesper Louis Andersen, a type theorist with lot of practical knowledge and experience. His blog (you should…
Efene: an Erlang VM language that embraces the Zen of Python
In this ocasion we interviewed Mariano Guerra, creator of Efene. Efene is “an alternative syntax for the Erlang Programming Language…
How to earn your Clojure white belt
I tend to think that if I do not know how to implement something then I do not undestand completely how it works. That is why I want to…
Interview with Nenad Rakocevic about Red, a Rebol inspired programming language
After our last interview with Brian McKenna for This is not a Monad tutorial we interviewed Nenad Rakocevic, creator of the Red programming…
Interview with Brian McKenna about Roy, Purescript, Haskell, Idris and dependent types
As promised in our last interview for This is not a Monad tutorial we interviewed Brian McKenna, creator of the Roy programming language…
The eleventh year: what to do after having taught yourself programming in ten years
You have followed the “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years” advice. Now what?
Interview with Timothy Baldridge, Pixie’s language creator
We interviewed Timothy Baldridge, creator of Pixie, a small fast, native lisp with magical powers. We hope you try it out!
Become an Erlang Cowboy and tame the Wild Wild Web — Part I
Erlang: From zero to coding a commenting system
Languages I want to learn and use this 2014
Take aim much higher than the mark
Is Ruby.nil? or Ruby.hype.dead? A current overview of Ruby
The main languages I’ve used this year