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Season 1 · Episode 6

Throughput, Thrills, and Theme Parks

30 September 2025 · 56 min

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Roller coasters and databases have the same issues: concurrency, throughput, and panic when things go wrong. Theme parks are basically enterprise technology, just with more churros and slightly fewer COBOL programmers.

Join Renee and Marc on another thrilling episode of the Nostalgic Nerds Podcast where we discuss the adventurous and thrilling theme park technology space. As always, we start in the past with the origins of modern parks and rides and soar all the way to modern day before we discuss the future of theme park tech. This episode had such a nostalgia vibe for us that we had to break it into two! Join us for both episodes!


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In this episode

  1. 0:00S1E6a - Throughput, Thrills, and Theme Parks
  2. 0:17Shout-Outs Across the Globe
  3. 6:00Amusement Park Technology Evolution
  4. 20:11Thrills of the Late 1800s
  5. 30:03The Rise of Steel Coasters
  6. 39:24Balancing Innovation and Safety
  7. 46:28Animatronics: The New Frontier
  8. 55:32Future of Theme Park Technology