11 June 2021
Alex Miller
Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a periodic link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem. (RSS feed)
This week Nubank announced a new $750M investment, led by $500M from Berkshire Hathaway at a $30B valuation. Nubank is the largest user of Clojure and Datomic in the world and a great example of the benefits of Clojure’s approach to managing complexity at scale.
Chris Nuernberger presented a great talk this week for London Clojurians about his work on high performance data processing with the dtype-next and tech.ml.dataset libraries.
The ClojureD conference last weekend was great with lots of interesting Clojure (and some non-Clojure) talks! Keep an eye out for videos soon.
We have a bumper crop of Clojure-related podcast episodes this week, put these in your ears…
Cognicast - Christian Romney interviews Jarrod Taylor from the Datomic team
Get Smarter and Make Stuff - Craig Andera interviews Michael Fogus from the Clojure core team
Lost in Lambduhhs - Jordan Miller interviews Alex Miller from the Clojure core team
ClojureScript Podcast - Jacek Schae interviews Tommi Reiman about Malli
defn - Vijay Kiran and Ray McDermott interview Chris Badahdah about Portal
Some interesting library updates and posts this week:
Mirabelle - 0.1.0 of this stream processing tool inspired by Riemann - check out the docs and a use case
sicmutils - Sam Ritchie released version 0.19.0 of this math and physics based library (based on the books by Sussman and Wisdom)
Cybermonday - Kiran Shila releases the first release of this Clojure data interface to Markdown (like Hiccup for Markdown)
HoneyEQL - Tamizhvendan S introduced 0.1.0-alpha36 for EQL queries to relational databases
Expectations - Sean Corfield released 2.0.0-alpha2 of this clojure.test-compatible implementation of Expectations
Snoop - Luis Thiam-Nye announced the initial release of a library for runtime function validation using Malli
OSS Clojure DBs - a summary and comparison of open-source Clojure databases (but don’t forget Datomic! :)
Tetris in ClojureScript - by Shaun Lebron
Apache Kafka & Ziggurat - Ziggurat is an event stream processing tool written in Clojure and this article shows how to use it to consume events from Kafka
Why are Clojure beginners just like vegans searching for good cheese? - on Lambda Island
Ping CRM on Clojure - a demo of implementing Ping CRM on Clojure+ClojureScript
Organizing Clojure code - a discussion from Clojureverse
An Animated Introduction to Clojure - by Mark Mahoney
In this recurring segment, we harken back to a talk from an older time to a favorite talk of yore. This week, we’re featuring:
Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools by Tim Ewald
Is it about woodworking? Is it about Clojure? Is it about how to work? Yes.
