Welcome to the Sayeret lambda group monthly podcast, covering programming language news, commentary and interviews with Lambda speakers!
This is our tenth episode! in it we cover:
Make the Back-End Team Jealous: Elm in Production
Ronen re-wrote Celestial Web UI in Elm
Yardena used Akka Streams and Http
This is our ninth episode! in it we cover:
An interview with Jose Valim about Elixir.
In what we did section we cover:
Yardena mentioned the Micro-services architecture, she also gave a talk at reversim about Scala and Akka.
Yardena used SBT to package docker instances of Spark and Play.
Ronen released Celestial publicly.
Octo a tiny Elixir project for backing up github.
Puppet Backup module and Opskeleton testing support were mentioned also.
Docker and Go presentation.
Clojure slow startup analysis.
Clojure web security sucks.
Can Java 8 replace Scala.
Akka 2.3.
Dotty Scala 3.0.
This is our seventh episode! in it we cover:
Interview with Damien Katz CTO of couchbase database company and creator of the Couchdb project.
In what we did section we cover:
Yardena developed a library for monitoring procceses using Akka, she also migrated to git with her team using gitflow and considered gerrit for code reviews but decided on reviewboard.
Ronen gave a talk about Vagrant and opskeleton, He also worked with virtualenv in python land and used swagger to document some API's, carmine is a redis library that he contributed code to.
Language expressiveness survey.
New round of Coursera’s functional programming in scala is starting, a study group in LivePerson, underscore-il group.
Slick 1.0 is out (LINQ for Scala).
Datomisca - Scala API for Datomic.
This is our sixth episode! in it we cover:
Interview with Guillaume Laforge lead Architect of the Groovy Language.
In what we did section we cover:
Yardena set up Jenkins and explored Liquibase for schema management, she did research on Scala reflection as an alternative for AspectJ.
Ronen worked did lots of Puppet work and used librarian-puppet to manage its depdencies, FPM and Vagrant too, you can view the slide of the talk I gave in devopscon.
We mentioned Javascript WAT (JS humor), Ruby under a microscope intro video.
In our discussion about Clojure macros Ronen mentioned sleight for global macro application.
LLVM gets loop vectorizer
Nashorn JVM javascript engine is out (replacing Rhino).
Clojure 1.5 rc 1 is out
Scala 2.10 is (almost) out
This is our fifth episode! in it we cover:
Interview with Michael Snoyman Lead developer of the Yesod Web Framework.
In what we did section we cover:
Yardena explored rabbitmq channel security and Scala online course.
Ronen worked on gelfino and storm integration, he also explored Seriesly and ported its Cubism horizion graphs example into Clojurescript in Seriously.
Phil Bagwell passing, RIP.
New Scala projects slick, subcut and a Google guice alternative for Android dagger.
Dart has entered the top 50 in TIOBE index.
Newspeak is still alive and running had a relase in september.
Java 8 borrows a lot from Scala.
We will be speaking in Oracle week, Yardena's Scala seminar and Ronen's Clojure seminar.
Codeq datastore for Clojure code based on git repository import, its based on Datomic which runs also on Dynamo DB
JDK 8 will add OpenCL integration built in, there are a couple existing projects like rootbeer1.
Prismatic has created Graph its not open source, Flow is a similar open source implementation.
This is our forth episode! in it we cover:
Interview with Gil Tene from Azul systems about GC.
In what we did section we cover:
Yardena used Cloud Foundry and VMC.
Ronen used cloudsearch and released Cloujsearch, swiss arrows and criterium were mentioned too.
Groovy 2.0, Joxa, project Jigsaw delayed.
Open source Architecture Nginx chapter.
Akka eventsource library.
This is our third episode! in it we cover:
Interview with Andery Breslav from jetbrains about Kotlin
In what we did section we cover:
Amazon EMR, clojure hadoop for writing jobs and lemur for launching and configuring jobs, fog for ec2 scripting.
Yardena Scala ILtech talk
Dart start web server.
Ruby under microscope ebook.
Gilad notes on SCM
This is our second episode! in it we cover:
Interview with Gilad Bracha of Google about Dart, his ideas about programming languages and types in particular, Gilad mentioned Strongtalk and Newspeak.
In the news we covered: Clojure 1.4, light table, Lang.NEXT and Ruby GC talk.
Reversim (an awesome podcast) hosted Ido Green about Dart from the users perspective, grab it here.
This is our first episode! in it we cover:
Introduction and why Lambda pod has a right to exist.
Whats kept us busy: Yardena talked about her first Groovy experience and using Easyb, Ronen mentioned Gelfino and the s-exp to l-exp compiler.
Interview with Iulian Dragos of Typesafe about Scala, it IDE support and the community in general.
Our impressions of the Edge Java conference, meeting Tim Berglund and Ronen's work on Liquibase Dsl and Gradle plugin, Yardena impression of time travel debugger and meeting Iulian.
datomic is out, uses datalog as query language, has a unique approach to data persistency and caching.
Scala macros controversy and Odersky’s response
Golang first version out, the next sayeret talk will be on Golang, Dart will follow.
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