Not a Monad Tutorial

Shell

NuShell: the shell where traditional Unix meets modern development, written in Rust

We interviewed its creators

Math

A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory

Or how to be a hardcore Guess Who gamer

Rust

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…

Programming

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…

Data Science

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…

Machine Learning

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…

Conference

The bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software conference

This time I am not writing an interview or a technical post. I am writing about a series of events that took place in the context of the…

Elasticsearch

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…

Erlang

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…

Finance

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…

Data Science

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…

Machine Learning

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…

Programming

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…

Programming

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…

Programming

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…

Clojure

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…

API

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…

Erlang

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…

Programming

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…

Erlang

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 year with Merigo, I appreciate and…

Clojure

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…

Erlang

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…

Functional Programming

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…

Development

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…

Functional Programming

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…