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the small codebases of microservices provide great refuge for the salaried functional programmer.

For more experienced functional programmers, most of this post will seem introductory, but I introduce some more advanced stuff near the end. Functional Programming over Canadian Programming Lately, I've been thinking about this Functional Programming journey I've been on. I thought it started when I was twenty, but It may

What is a transducer anyways? Specifically, from the documentation 'a transducer is a transformation from one reducing function to another'. We can think of a transducer as a context-independent transformation composed of, say, many reducers (like map and filter). If we think of functional programming as a series of transformations

I'm sure for some of you Model-View-Controller (MVC) resembles more of an anti-pattern than something to reach for when writing Clojure, but I think it's a great example of what architecture should accomplish, especially what can be accomplished in Clojure. MVC decouples state, state changes, and state usage. One way

One day my squad mate at a Clojure startup committed a macro to the codebase, and I was quick to reprimand them for it as the same functionality could have been implemented with Clojure core functions. Peeling back the decision rationale, I discovered my colleague had never learned the first

we can ship production code with Clojure. A strange bit of grumbling I hear from developers directs their angst toward not having "compile time type checking errors"

This post is the second in a series. You can find the first post in the series here where I covered Null Object, Singleton, Command, Observer, State, Visitor, and Iterator. Patterns * Preamble * Builder * Chain of Responsibility * Proxy * Adapter * Template Method * Flyweight * Strategy Our story continues Edmund, a bright, awkward young

Clojure either directly supports, or easily supports the use of common design patterns like singleton, command, observer, visitor

I think there's another reason this problem persists in Clojure. There's no Rails for Clojure.

Turns out, it's a yak barbershop.