Clojure Gazette 156: Martin Luther King, Microservices, Naming

Written by Eric Normand. Published: January 18, 2016.

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Martin Luther King, Microservices, Naming

Clojure
Gazette

Issue 156 - January 18, 2015

Hi Clojurists,

Please enjoy the issue.

Rock on!

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JUXT Clojure Technology Radar

JUXT is a Clojure consultancy in London, England. They've just published a technology radar in the style of ThoughtWorks, but focused solely on Clojure and its ecosystem. This has inspired me to think about my own personal choices of libraries and how I would organize them.

How to Name Clojure Functions

Solid rules of thumb from Stuart Sierra.

CQRS/DDD Youtube

A mammoth talk by Greg Young about Domain Driven Design and Command-Query Responsibility Separation. There is some deep wisdom about append-only data models.

Welcome to the new clojure.org

Clojure.org has received a redesign to revamp the site as a hub for community collaboration. Remember, the site was open sourced a couple of months ago. Sign the Contributor Agreement and make some pull requests.

So You Want to Rewrite That ... Youtube

Camille Fournier explains when a rewrite is justified and how to do it.

DDD & Microservices: At Last, Some Boundaries! Youtube

I've been researching a lot on microservices lately and also on Domain Driven Design (DDD). This talk, by DDD inventor is about both, so I had to watch it. It's made me feel better about microservices than any other talk.

Flexible Systems, The Power of Generic Operations

Gerald Jay Sussman presents at LispNYC on dynamic and dangerous systems. Not a classic but interesting.

I Have a Dream Youtube

Today, in the United States, we celebrate the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King. I tend to commemorate it by listening to one of his speeches and thinking about how far we've come and how far we still have to go.

What's Really Warming the World?

A great visualization of different factors affecting global warming. I wish all of my communication should be so clear.