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31 from 6 Jan 2020 to 12 Aug 2026
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2026 5

  1. Teaching LLMs to one-shot complex backends at scale, report #3
  2. Teaching LLMs to one-shot complex backends at scale, report #2
  3. Teaching LLMs to one-shot complex backends at scale, report #1
  4. The pain of microservices can be avoided, but not with traditional databases
  5. Rama matches CockroachDB’s TPC-C performance at 40% less AWS cost

2025 14

  1. Rama in five minutes
  2. Rama in five minutes (Clojure version)
  3. The programmers who live in Flatland
  4. Introducing Agent-o-rama: build, trace, evaluate, and monitor stateful LLM agents in Java or Clojure
  5. Make Worse Software, Slower
  6. Next-level backends with Rama: personalized content moderation in 60 LOC
  7. How G+D Netcetera used Rama to 100x the performance of a product used by millions of people
  8. Next-level backends with Rama: fault-tolerant timed notifications in 25 LOC
  9. Next-level backends with Rama: recommendation engine in 80 LOC
  10. Massively scalable collaborative text editor backend with Rama in 120 LOC
  11. Next-level backends with Rama: storing and traversing graphs in 60 LOC
  12. Rama, the 100x developer platform, is now free for production use
  13. How AfterHour built an ultra-scalable chat service in one month with Rama
  14. How Multiply went from Datomic to XTDB to Rama

2024 5

  1. Rama on Clojure’s terms, and the magic of continuation-passing style
  2. Migrating terabytes of data instantly (can your ALTER TABLE do this?)
  3. Rama is a testament to the power of Clojure
  4. 2.5x better performance: Rama vs. MongoDB and Cassandra
  5. Everything wrong with databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary

2023 3

  1. How Rama is tested: a primer on testing distributed systems
  2. Introducing Rama’s Clojure API: build end-to-end scalable backends in 100x less code
  3. How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x

2021 2

  1. Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase
  2. Where we’re going, we don’t need threads: Simulating Distributed Systems

2020 2

  1. Clojure, Faster
  2. Serializing and Deserializing Clojure Fns with Nippy