Scalability and reliability don’t always go hand in hand — especially when you don’t want to buy enormous amount of money for the solution. We’re investigating new AWS tools Kinesis, Firehose and Lambda to improve our real time analytics processing. First results look very promising. To check the viability of…

I wrote a small Clojure library for doing performance tests. For reports it uses nice charts provided by Gatling (hence the name clj-gatling). Gatling has it’s own DSL for specifying the test scenarios. I chose to use a different approach by just using ordinary Clojure data types and functions. I…

We invited Erik Meijer (@headinthebox) to Reaktor Dev Day. He gave a very interesting and provocative keynote for the conference. You can read an excellent blog post about it here. While I may not agree with all the things Erik pointed out, the talk itself was really inspiring. One of…