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Currently Playing: Why one of the world's largest digital banks chose Clojure and Datomic

Explore why one of the world's largest digital banks chose Clojure as its primary backend language — and how it has enabled them to scale effectively since 2013. We dive into how the "Out of the Tarpit" paper influenced Nubank's approach to managing the inherent complexities of large-scale retail banking systems, and how functional programming, immutable data, and the Datomic database provide a "superpower" for auditing, regulatory compliance, and system correctness by preserving history. Check out the full Clojure documentary here: https://youtu.be/Y24vK_QDLFg?si=aVgRMFsZnumWH-87 Featured Speakers: Edward Wible: Co-founder, first CTO, and Distinguished Engineer at Nubank. Lucas Cavalcanti: Distinguished Software Engineer and Senior Architect at Nubank. Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cult-repo