JUXT Cast

Episode Notes Open Source Readiness:  https://osr.finos.org/docs/bok/Introduction http://osr.finos.org/ FINOS AI Governance Framework:  https://air-governance-framework.finos.org/ https://air-governance-framework.finos.org/ https://air-governance-framework.finos.org/ Common Cloud Controls:  https://ccc.finos.org/ http://ccc.finos.org/ Get an early-access copy of Risk-First Software Development: ht...

Episode Notes David Kelly is the author of several books, including Handbook of Model Risk Management for Vendors: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidkerrkelly_new-publication-handbook-of-model-risk-management-activity-7351188030193295360-nTur/ . JUXT CTO Henry Garner will be presenting "Accelerating FINOS AI Governance Framework Adoption in Financial Services" at the upcoming FINOS con...

Episode Notes In this episode of the JUXTCast, we are joined by Malcolm Sparks (JUXT CTO), Henry Garner (Principal Engineer), Denis Lobanov (Senior Software Engineer), and Joe Littlejohn (Chief Delivery Officer) for an inside look at JUXT’s upcoming AI Radar. Initiated by Henry, the AI Radar is a new initiative designed to organise and share JUXT’s insights, advice, and recommendations on AI-relat...

Episode Notes From settling into JUXT’s brand-new office to sharing insights from the XT25 Fintech Conference in London, the team discusses how the industry is evolving and how AI is shaping the future of software, finance, and developer tooling. Whether you're curious about what’s next for JUXT or the broader fintech and AI landscape, this episode sets the tone for an exciting new chapter.

Episode Notes In this engaging episode of the JUXT Cast, Jeremy Taylor and Malcolm Sparks sit down with Ryan Robitaille, the founder of Rabbit, https://github.com/ryrobes/rvbbit . Ryan shares his unique journey—from working with Oracle systems as a young Solutions Engineer to becoming a creative force in the world of data visualization. Ryan explores his experience building Rabbit, a tool designed...

Episode Notes This latest episode of the JUXTCast features Gene Kim, a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, celebrated researcher, and multiple award-winning Chief Technology Officer. Gene is widely recognized for his contributions to the DevOps movement and for co-authoring influential works such as The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook. In this engaging discussion, Gene reflects on his...

Episode Notes In this episode, JUXT’s CEO Jon Pither, CTO Malcolm Sparks, and Head of Delivery Joe Littlejohn, are joined by guest Software Engineer Jake Howard to engage in a thoughtful discussion on the enduring static vs dynamic typing debate. While static typing has long been a staple in programming, the conversation leans toward the growing appeal of dynamic typing in modern software practice...

Episode Notes Our guest is Niall Murphy, CEO of Stanza - a company founded by a group of experienced SREs with a vision to provide the tools, coding platform, culture and community to give any organization industry-leading reliability. Niall previously worked at Google where he co-authored the book "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems" (2016). In this podcast...

Episode Notes In this podcast episode, JUXT CTO Malcolm Sparks, JUXT Head of Delivery Joe Littlejohn, and XTDB Head of Product Jeremy Taylor spoke with guest Mark Burgess, an independent researcher and writer. Formerly a professor at Oslo University College in Norway and the creator of the CFEngine software and company, Mark was invited to write the foreward (https://sre.google/sre-book/foreword/)...

Episode Notes Our guest is Lukas Eder, creator of jOOQ ( https://jooq.org/ ) - a fluent Java API for SQL building and execution. In this episode, JUXT Head of Product Jeremy Taylor and Lukas Eder discuss the often under-appreciated power and significance of SQL for developers, and how Lukas' jOOQ library helps Java developers sidestep the pitfalls of ORMs. Lukas has been developing jOOQ since 2009...

Episode Notes Our guest is András Gerlits, founder of  OmniLedger  - a technology for simplifying distributed consistency across systems. In this episode we discussed the various interpretations of the idea of ‘consistency’ in software and technology more generally. András has been developing OmniLedger for several years and has written about the many problems it attempts to solve on his  blog . T...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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

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

Episode Notes Strange Loop: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/

Episode Notes Papers We love: https://paperswelove.org/ PDFxStream: https://www.snowtide.com/ Metacrawler: https://www.metacrawler.com/ pdfQL: https://www.pdfdata.com/ Chemerick.com : https://cemerick.com/ ‘Clojure Programming: Practical Lisp for the Java World’ book: https://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Practical-Lisp-World-ebook/dp/B007Q4T040 ‘Real World Ocaml: Functional programming for t...

Episode Notes Felinne Hermans: "Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022) Focus Retreat Center: https://focusretreatcenter.com/ Twitter: @focusretreats Instagram: @focusretreat.center Facebook: @focusretreat.center LinkedIn: @focusretreatcenter

Episode Notes Veradept: https://veradept.com/ elm-conf: https://2020.elm-conf.com/about ‘Waltzing with Bears’ book: https://www.amazon.com/Waltzing-Bears-Managing-Software-Projects/dp/0932633609 ‘Software Estimation’ book: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Developer-Practices/dp/0735605351 DoomCheck: https://doomcheck.com/ Twitter: @jhbrown94