In this episode I talk with Kurt Schrader. We talk about his introduction to Clojure, deciding to build a company on Clojure and Datomic, how Datomic changes your thinking about databases and more.
Our Guest, Kurt Schrader
@kurt on Twitter
Announcements
On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more.
LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more.
PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal.
If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.
Topics
About Kurt
Datomic
Being different enough from Java to force people to think differently
“We can always fall back to a Java library”
Cascalog
“This is just math”
Selling Clojure across the company
Deciding to build a company and start with Clojure
“There was that question of would we be able to hire people”
“You use Clojure? I want to do that”
The Python Paradox
Cursive
Using Datomic for historical view of data
“There is a self selecting group of people who want to use Datomic”
What is Datomic and what it gets you
Queries go through memory on a local box
Transition in thinking when using Datomic
You stop over thinking queries
Datalog
“You start to ask yourself ‘Why did I do thinks the old way?'”
Thinking about how to take advantage of availability of historical data
Get out into meetups and grow the community
As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.