Staying SAFE: A Foundation for Clojure Apps
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Sonian runs a shared Clojure foundation called SAFE foundation that indexes into Elasticsearch and processes 10-20 million emails/day in production. It provides a config merger that reads all config.clj/json/edn on the classpath, a module system with doinit/dofini/defstatus/deftick for startup/shutdown/status/periodic tasks, a CLI safe controls system with defadmin and argument validation, works across Linux and Windows, uses Chef for env overrides, and is proven in long‑running production.
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