Clojure eXchange 2015

Two enjoyable days at skills matter in London, finding out how people are putting Clojure to work and getting some excellent results. I came away with a few things to change in my current projects and bunch of things to investigate after hearing about the lessons learnt by others. If you couldn’t be there there is no need to miss out, most of the sessions are up online for you to checkout.

Sadly there’s not a skillscast up for my favorite talk which was all about building a real time analytics engine for twitter data. Yann and Guillame showed off their amazing results dashboard and described how they built the majority of the stack in Clojure, from ingesting and enriching the source data to the UI that displays the results — inspirational.

However, the rest of my highlights are available, so here’s my list of sessions I’d recomend you watch in no particular order:

Dueling Keyboards : Chris Ford explains tuning systems and shows how Clojure can be used in algorithmic music.

Architecting for Scale: Kris Jenkins looks at how we can structure JavaScript based UIs. This talk explains the pretty neat idea of building the view from a stream of events.

A tour of the open source Clojure ecosystem: Bridget Hillyer gives a whistlestop tour of the Clojure open source landscape. Then gives some top tips on how to get involved or help get people get involved with open source projects. The second half of the talk should be required viewing for programmers in any language.

Are you afraid of dependancies?: In one of the conference’s six Lightning Talks, Glen Mailer looks at the problems that dependancies can cause and suggests that we could create a dependancy system for Clojure that elemninates a lot of these.

You can get the whole listing here If you need an introduction or a refresher on macros Pablo’s presentation will hit the spot.

Early bird booking for next year is already open : https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/7430-clojure-exchange-2016