During our regular "tech lunch," we have got our brains blown by the talk Lucas Cavalcanti & Edward Wible - Exploring four hidden superpowers of Datomic (slides) that summarizes the key benefits a startup bank in Brazil got from using this…
I have just gone through the painful experience of troubleshooting a remote Java webapp in a production-like environment and longed for Clojure's explore-and-edit-running-app REPL. I want to demonstrate and contrast the tools the two languages offer…
In Clojure we use again and again the same data structures and have many functions operating on them. Java programmers, on the other hand, create a unique class for every grouping of data, with its own "API" (getters, setters, return types, ...) for…
As a Clojure developer thrown into an "enterprise" Java/Spring/Groovy application, I have a unique opportunity to experience and think about the differences between functional (FP) and object-oriented programming (OOP) and approach to design. Today I…
Our experience shows that hiring people for a Clojure(Script) project is relatively easy (in Oslo, Norway) despite a market where demand exceeds supply. But it is important to use the right channels to reach the right people.As I have written…
In which I explain why Norway's second largest mobile operator is experimenting with using Clojure and ClojureScript instead of Node and JavaScript for its new webshop and what the experience has been so far.Aside - about us: Telia Norge is Norway's…
What's the deal with ClojureScript? How can you justify picking such a "niche" language? I have recently experienced a "wow" session, demonstrating the productivity gains of ClojureScript and the interactive development it enables thanks to its REPL…