Clojurians Log v2

Morning!

@paulspencerwilliams: good shout out for brum uni CS dept, as a vet myself..

morning all

morning all

@jonpither: I missed on on Brum Uni. Have lots of mates that really enjoyed their studies, but I was sunning myself at Bournemouth Uni. Course wasn't as good, but hey, we had :beach_with_umbrella:

I enjoyed bham uni. Could've worked harder, but hey

@paulspencerwilliams: life is all about priorities..... and the beach sounds like a good one to me 😉

it's true what they say, you've got your entire working life to 'work'

Shame I'd not heard of Hammock Driven Development at the time

isn't that just a variant of SSS driven development? (Sun, Sand, Siesta)

true, thought keep that silicon and salt water away from my Macbook 😉

pfft. Throw more silicon at it, it'll go faster, or grow more ram

Bit of research, what do people think are the early 'flagship' projects, where you know Clojure was used, and you thought 'wow, Clojure is fit for wide use'?

Riemann was the the first app i used at work

USwitch was the first place I really understood used it throughout

Riemann is a good example of a really useful tool - I remember Sam Newmans talk on it at EuroClojure 2012

I started using it at Skimlinks and we ended up using 6 screens out of 15 from the monitor wall to show the dashboard

went from an experiment to essential

What about actual headline businesses using Clojure?

i.e. RoomKey (Skimlinks is a good London example)

Obv MailOnline, OnTheMarket, though looking for others buried just beneath conciousness

Swiftkey have been using it in their new experimental android apps

Walmart? although only in R&D as I understand it?

Amazon uses Clojure, so do Oracle and Apple.... but the last two are fairly recent

and wasn't there a thing called flightcaster fairly early on. dunno if they are still around

ooh... and Nokia (mixradio these days)

flightcaster is dead

has been for years

I think the Guardian does too. But I don't think that's actually saying much. They seem to use everything under the sun

was bought

prismatic still use clojure iirc

braintree use clojure in places

and I heard this weird story about this guy in IBM who thinks it is really cool... but as of yet has failed the powers that be to try out Cloujure 😉

@paulspencerwilliams: walmart use it in production http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2015/6/30/walmart-runs-clojure-at-scale

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