Written in Erlang, it won him Erlanger of the year in 2008.

Their interests include the equitable use of data, using #tech4good, and open and free software for all.ĭamien Katz is currently working on a new cloud-enabled fork of Oracle MySQL, and is best known as the creator of Apache CouchDB. Previously, they were the fourth engineering hire at Suborbital Software Systems, where they built the company’s flagship products. Nyah Macklin serves as the Developer Evangelist for Couchbase during the day, and teaches non-binary and women engineers to code at G non-profit at night. This month, The ReadME Project Senior Editor Mike Melanson talks to a few developers to get their thoughts on how to keep up (or not) with the times. What do you do when suddenly everyone around you is shouting about functional programming when you’re happily plugging along writing C++? Or when your beloved back-end language is suddenly making moves to the front end? Or when a JavaScript library suddenly seems like it’s taking over the world? How do you flow with the times as they slowly, almost imperceptibly shift beneath your feet? But paradigm shifts happen while you’re busy making pull requests.

There’s seemingly endless articles on the topic, and most advise how to keep up with all the fast-paced changes of the tech world. They say that developers always need to be learning.

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