This is part two of a number of mini interviews I did at LambdaConf 2015. While I was there, I setup my laptop and microphone off to the side for a bit and recorded episodes with anybody who was interested in a mini interview.

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Announcements

Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off the two days of conference when you register.

Kats Conf 15 is going to take place on the 12th of September in 2015. Co-organized by past guest Andrea Magnorsky, this is a conference that looks to impress.

Topics

Shakrah Yves

@shakrahyves

Shakrah’s background

Clojure Bridge

Sharon Steed

Haskell for the Web

Feedback for the community from a newcomer

Everyone was open and welcoming

Interest in Haskell and Clojure

Brian Troutwine

@bltroutwine

How to approach building a fault-tolerant system

8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing

Realtime embedded systems

Systems Theory

How to structure the internet/ARPANet

Early distributed systems theory about relational databases

Microservices and distributed systems

NTP (Network Time Protocol)

Mathematics and Programming

Study NTP; read the NTP RFCs from start to finish

http://troutwine.us

Pawel Szulc

@rabbitonweb

Overview of Pawel’s talk on Monads

Douglas Crockford’s “Curse of the Monad”

Openness of people at LambdaConf 2015

Wide variety of talks on different languages

The parallels between Scala and Clojure

Richard Feldman

@rtfeldman

DreamWriter

Path to Functional Programming and path to Elm

CoffeeScript

JavaScript to CoffeeScript to Elm transition

Elm’s signals and actions

Catching up with the progress of ClojureScript and PureScript

Aysylu Greenberg

@aysylu22

4Clojure

Cogincast episode with Aysylu

Loom

GraphViz

About her talk on Loom

Aysylu’s Loom talk at Clojure West 2014

Emily language

Rust

Virtual file system talk

Lisp Flavoured Erlang

A giant Thank You to David Belcher for the logo design.