Tea Leaves - Issue 1

Welcome Welcome to this first issue of Tea Leaves, the companion newsletter to Gaiwan's Tea Garden! Whether you have been following all things Gaiwan and Lambda Island for years now, or

Heart of Clojure 2.0

This post contains practical information about the CFP, you can scroll down for that, but we do recommend you read the whole post before submitting a talk or session. In 2019 we organized

IT Revolution Wins at Virtual Conferences with Gaiwan

Gaiwan enabled IT Revolution, an American IT leadership education company, to confidently move their in-person conferences online as well as create educational resources. Starting out in a fractional CTO role, we supported IT Revolution by building a portfolio of software platforms and products.

Building a clojure based video editor and renderer on top of FFMPEG

IT Revolution edits over 100 videos per live streaming conference. To handle this, we built them a cloud-native video editor in ClojureScript that used FFMPEG DSL that synced speak and slide footage with on-demand rendering and customizable video templates for intuitive editing.