-
Clojure eXchange 2019
Two days in London
If you're looking for the best place to learn about Clojure, Functional Programming and network with like-minded people, then Clojure eXchange 2019 is the conference you simply can't miss. Meet with the world's leading experts on Clojure and learn the latest concepts and applications...
clojure data-science clojurescript clojurex functional-programming fp -
Keynote: The Spirit of Clojure
Featuring Karsten Schmidt
Join Karsten for his Keynote on the spirit of Clojure.
keynote clojurex clojure -
Brewing CIDER: It Starts with an Orchard
Featuring Bozhidar Batsov
We are elated to have Bozhidar back at Clojure eXchange this year!
clojurex functional-programming clojure -
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...
clojurex clojure functional-programming -
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.
Jason Bell...
functional-programming clojure clojurex -
Applying Clojure's Design Principles to its Documentation
Featuring Tom McTighe
Clojure was designed to be clear, consistent, practical, and empowering -- and many think it's the best language that ever was.
clojure ux ui technical-writing documentation-docs-tutorials programming-languages clojure-java-lisp -
Are You Writing Java in Clojure?
Featuring Erik Assum
As Erik dove into yet another Clojure codebase, it was whispering very quietly. He couldn’t quite figure out what it was saying, but it caught his attention.
composability clojure-codebase clojure java -
Clojure Embedded in Music Hardware
Featuring Chris McCormick
For the past year, Chris and team have been bootstrapping a little music tech company. Chris will share how they built prototype MIDI controllers, a sampler, and musical web-apps with Clojure.
clojure dsp audio music lumo clojurescript web-audio raspberry-pi teensy arduino embedded mcu -
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.
clojure clojurex experience-report software-architecture -
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...
clojurex clojure hiring cljs -
Speed Bumps Ahead
Featuring Alexander Yakushev
Performance optimization is an obscure topic because people usually don't practice it too often. Performance doesn't matter most of the time, and you can safely ignore thinking about it up until the moment it starts to matter. That's where you are left wondering what exactly went...
clojure clojurex debugging profiling performance -
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...
clojurex clojure testing -
Data Science in Languages I Don’t Understand
Featuring Rob Stanley
Wefarm, the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, lets small-scale farmers connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas and spread innovation — all for free. With Wefarm, farmers can share and access crucial crop and livestock information about how to improve their yield or...
ai clojure regional-languages sms agriculture nlp machine-learning data-science bigdata -
Keynote: Zeno and the Tar Pit
Featuring Christophe Grand
According to Guy Steele, Java managed to drag a lot of C++ devs halfway to Lisp. Clojure dragged Christophe halfway out of Moseley&Marks’ tar pit. Where to now?
futurology concurrency async logic fp clojure -
Polymorphism à la Clojure: Functional Object Oriented Programming is not an Oxymoron.
Featuring Yehonathan Sharvit
It is quite common to think that Functional Programming is in opposition with Object Oriented Programming.
functional-object-oriented-programming functional-programming polymorphism clojurex clojure -
Lightning Talk: Running without an API
Featuring Gaivile Vezeviciute
Parkrun organise free, weekly, 5km timed runs around the world. They are open to everyone, free, and are safe and easy to take part in. In case any event is cancelled, they have this information on the website. Unfortunately, there is only a promise of an API for notifications.
api web functional-programming clojurex clojure -
2
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.
health ontology clojurex clojure -
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.
beginners clara-rules clojure clojurex -
Lightning Talk: Monitoring Clojure Applications with Prometheus
Featuring Joachim Draeger
How do you know your Clojure Microservice is doing what it is supposed to do? Don’t stay in the dark, add some metrics! Jo is going to share with you how you can easily add Prometheus metrics to your Clojure application and how to give it a go locally in a Docker Compose stack.
live docker metrics monitoring prometheus clojure clojurex functional-programming
