Functional Geekery Episode 128 – Gene Kim 164u1c

In this episode I talk with Gene Kim. We talk his introduction to Clojure and functional programming, The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Functional Architecture, lessons learned, his Love Letter to Clojure, and much, much, more. Our Guest, Gene Kim @realgenekim on Twitter realgenekim on LinkedIn Conference Announcements Lambda Days 2020 will be on the 13th and 14th of February in Kraków, Poland. Visit https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2020 to find out more and to . Code BEAM SF is taking place on March 6th and 6th. For more information visit: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf/. Elm in the Spring will be taking place May 1st. Check in at https://www.elminthespring.org/ to keep updated as more information gets announced. If you have a conference related to functional programming, me, and I will be happy to announce it. Announcements Some of you have asked how you can Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page. If that is one of the ways you would like to show your , you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery. Topics [@2:51] About Gene Tripwire State of DevOps Report The Phoenix Project The DevOps Handbook The Unicorn Project Clojure Love Letter to Clojure (Part 1) Ops being where the saves were made Gene Spafford Morris worm 90% of his errors go away when using Clojure What put Clojure on his list to pick up Ruby Reference Manual How Ruby strings aren’t immutable Reading a Clojure book and bolting upright in bed finding out that Ruby’s << operator modifies the right hand side array Java Concurrency in Practice Eiffel Object Oriented Software Construction Smalltalk Immutability and Value Object in Object Oriented style Working in the REPL in Clojure Writing a vacation notifier for Gmail Rewrites note taking and tweeting app a number of times Objective C TypeScript and React Clojure and re-frame Data is immutable, but the program is very mutable Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Flow, the secret to happiness Ted Talk Peak by Anders Ericsson Deliberate Practice Grit by Angela Duckworth Have a coach; Do practice Podcasts David Koontz on Functional Geekery LambdaCast Functional Design in Clojure podcast JavaScript tooling environment Cats library Haskell How has Clojure refreshed Gene’s thinking when going back to older programs Maxine in The Unicorn Project Micheal Nygard How did the scenes resonate to Proctor RamdaJs Brian Lonsdorf on Functional Geekery David Chambers covering Ramda on Functional Geekery Seeing the shape of the data Some form of a combination of map, filter, reduce “Is it good to think with” Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: Language affects worldview of the speakers Eric Normand on thinking in types based off experience in Haskell Grokking Simplicity Actions, Calculation, Data Simon Peyton Jones on Functional Geekery Dr. John Launchbury Creating Word-Cloud from bibliography and replacing “Ibid.” problem “What are the types of input and output?” “What is the correct answer when you have just one element ‘Ibid.’?” clojure.spec How much did Functional Programming and data-focus opting to write The Unicorn Project Studying Rich Hickey videos Rich Hickey’s 2015 JavaOne presentation Lunch Factor: How many people do we need to take out to lunch to get something done? “How do you get data where it resides […] to where developers can use it in their daily work” Kafka Event Sourcing Self Identifying as a Developer after 25 years Gene’s current view on Functional Architecture Scott Havens (of Jet.com and Walmart.com) presentation on turning 23 API calls to 2 API calls Scott Havens’ talk about rebuilding Kafka servers F# The 5 Ideals: Locality and Simplicity Focus, Flow, and Joy Improvement of daily work Psychological Safety Customer Focus Project Oxygen at Google Core vs Context Excepts of the first 60% of The Unicorn Project First 8 chapters as Audiobook format Fernando Cornago – Adidas talk on data availability across the organization Clojure Conj Gene’s presentation at Clojure Conj As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. 5k4s4k