The first cloud native programming language (Interview)

Jerod talked with Paul Fremantle, the CTO and Co-Founder of WSO2, about their new programming language, Ballerina — a cloud-native language which aims to make it easier to write microservices that integrate APIs. They talked about the creation of the language and how it was inspired by so many technologies, cloud native features like built-in container support, serverless-friendly, observability, and how it works with, or without, a service mesh — just to name a few.

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• Paul Fremantle – X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Ballerina.io - Landing page of Ballerina.io : Cloud Native Programming Language
• Ballerina’s philosophy - Ballerina.io design philosophy which incorporates fundamental concepts of distributed system integration into the language
• Ballerina Central - Ballerina.io Central code repository of reusable code packages
• Coverage on The New Stack - Article on Ballerina in The New Stack

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