Interviews

In our Functional Futures podcast episodes, we interview technical leaders from companies that use Haskell for real-world tasks. This season will be dedicated to the business side of development with functional programming. Our guest is Max Tagher, the co-founder and CTO of Mercury, the fintech startups use for banking* and all their financial workflows. Mercury has been using Haskell from the start of the company, from scratch. And our conversation will be dedicated to that. *Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

In our Haskell in Production series, we interview developers and technical leaders from companies that use Haskell for real-world tasks. We cover benefits, downsides, common pitfalls, and tips for building useful Haskell products. Today's guest is Marc Scholten, the Founder and CEO of digitally induced. In this interview, we discuss their product, textcontent.ai. It is a text-generating tool that helps marketers create a distinct style and tone of voice. Marc explained how it differs from other options on the market and how they use Haskell in their product.

In this interview from our Rust in Production series, we speak with Jessica Black, a senior software engineer at FOSSA, a developer-native open source management platform. Jessica has been working at FOSSA for over four years and has been on the Analysis team for the past two years. The Analysis team manages FOSSA CLI and FOSSA Broker, along with services that power more advanced capabilities like snippet scanning and vendored code matching.

In this edition of our “Haskell in Production” series, we interview Jeroen Bransen from Chordify, an online platform, which turns any music or song into chords. Jeroen has been working at Chordify since 2016. We discussed how Chordify ensures the correctness of Haskell code and scalability of its codebase, which libraries they use in their work, and more.

In this edition of our "Haskell in Production" series, we feature FOSSA – a tool for open-source risk management. Our guest, Eliza Zhang from the engineering team at FOSSA, discusses her experience using Haskell in backend analysis services and CLI. Read further to learn about the benefits and downsides of Haskell he encountered while working on the project, as well as tips he would give to teams starting Haskell projects like his.

In this edition of our Haskell in Production series, we interview, a Norwegian digital marketplace for classified ads. We spoke with Karsten Mevassvik, the Technical Domain Expert (Tech Lead) of the AdView team, and Torgeir Strand Henriksen, a full-time Haskell developer, about their experience with Haskell and their general approach to web development.