clojure

When things go wrong Devops is one of those important positions where nobody cares what you're doing until things stop working. Along with SRE folks, the position may as well be akin to a firefighter. I know this first hand having been a loaded-title myself. You haven'

Clojure has two types of publish/subscribe facilities built-in. The first is a watch, quite literally a first-class observer. The second, and the one we'll be using, is built into clojure's core.async library.

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

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"

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.