ClojureRemote 17 — Day 2 Round-Up
The second day of ClojureRemote 17 was just as exciting as the first. With more talks, break-out sessions, interviews etc.
We started Day-2 off with a quick intro from Ryan Neufeld. Then jumped straight into some more talks with Luke Vanderhart on Arachne, which is a new web app framework. As well as a workshop by Eric Normand on Building Composable Abstractions.
We continued our talks with ZeroMQ for Clojurists by Dave Yarwood. If you have ever used async in Clojure, chances are you have poked around with core.async. Priyatam Mudivarti gave us a talk on Data Pipelines with core.async and will be providing us with a means of making things simpler through a library he has in the works. I’ll be excited to see that go open-source when the time is right.
Tom Coupland spoke about event systems in his talk Putting It All Together, while Conor White-Sullivan spoke to us about Small Problems Worth Solving before starting our Break-Out Sessions. Conor has an app in development I highly recommend over at Clojunto.
After the talks concluded we split up into our Break-Out Sessions. These are a great way to introduce yourself directly to some of the other members in the Clojure community and speak with the people who are working on all the cool technologies we have seen throughout ClojureRemote. The #hallway channel on slack quickly filled up with a bunch of suggestions around topics to discuss. Firebase was mentioned and I quickly jumped on the opportunity to talk about it, as well as a ClojureScript library I created for working with the Firebase API.
You can check out the library here:
We started with some discussion around Firebase and took a quick dive into some bug hunting for one of our session members. Then picked up again on the library mentioned above. Our Break-Out session went straight through lunch and developed into other topics like Datomic/Datascript. I personally quite enjoyed having community members like Paulus Esterhazy and Conor White-Sullivan to provide their insight and drive the conversation deeper.
After our Break-Out sessions, I joined Ryan Neufeld for a quick interview around the session and some final words before I retired from the conference. He continued the lightning talks with Drew Verlee before kicking off the final Talk/Keynote of the Conference.
To end off ClojureRemote 17 Jay Martin shared with us his thoughts in the keynote The Value of Learning. I had the opportunity to speak with Jay earlier in the year while we both were preparing for our presentations. I also recommend checking out the interview he did with Ryan prior to the conference.
ClojureRemote 17 was such an amazing experience I cannot wait to continue connecting with the Clojure community. Thanks so much to everyone who came out, you are the reason we ❤ open-source.
Another BONUS for everyone who missed out on our Break-Out session talk:
