ClojureX Park Bench Panel

Featuring Yolina Sotirova

Keynote: The Spirit of Clojure

Featuring Karsten Schmidt

Join Karsten for his Keynote on the spirit of Clojure.

Brewing CIDER: It Starts with an Orchard

Featuring Bozhidar Batsov

We are elated to have Bozhidar back at Clojure eXchange this year!

Parallel All the Way

Featuring Renzo Borgatti

The resurgence of interest in functional languages is often linked to their superior handling of concurrent and parallel environments, a crucial feature to exploit the increasing number of CPU cores in standard hardware. Clojure contains a few facilities to produce parallel code, but these tools...

Learning How to Design Automatically Updating AI With Clojure, Kafka and Deeplearning4j

Featuring Jason Bell

With the increased development and adoption of streaming platforms, you now have a solid mechanism for collecting and processing data in a timely fashion. The growth and interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence has also given you refined prediction and decision making.

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Growing a Product with Clojure: Lessons Learned

Featuring Łukasz Korecki

Building a new product can be a lot of fun and you have to choose what technology stack will give you a good head start. Initially, Łukasz and team chose Ruby on Rails to build a prototype which was great until our users started to grow significantly.

Lightning Talk: Fullstack Clojure in the Movie Business

Featuring Nigel Runnels-Moss

Gower Street Analytics is a big-data movie industry company that is in the somewhat rare position of using Clojure for the back-end, Clojure for the 'front-end' (web layer) and ClojureScript for the client. In this brief talk, Nigel will share what you can learn from running clj/cljs on...

Quick and Easy Testing for Busy Mums (and other Clojure developers)

Featuring Eleanor Mann

From her personal experience with the testing culture in the Clojure community, Eleanor felt the need for and developed a less idealistic and more practical, negotiated approach to testing, with the emphasis on lightweight, maintainable tests. During this talk, she will share her approach and...

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Now you're Speaking my Language! : Building, Maintaining and Using a Patient-Friendly Medical Ontology

Featuring Sam Oleary and Chloe Pont

HealthUnlocked is a social network where people discuss their health. Their users share 4.5 pieces of health content every minute, which they categorise within milliseconds using machine learning.

Lightning Talk: Beginners Introduction to Clara Rules

Featuring Charlotte Fereday

Clara rules enables developers to express domain knowledge in code without the overhead of an enterprise rule system. Clara is a combination of expert system and Clojure functional programming.