Clojure. One Language to Rule Them All

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A demo of an end-to-end ad publishing and search application implemented entirely in Clojure: ClojureScript + React frontend, JVM backend, an embedded Datomic-like DB, Kafka queues, and TensorFlow models invoked via a Python bridge; GraalVM native-image builds are used for AWS Lambda. The talk covers low-overhead messaging to Python, running model training and prediction inside the pipeline with search-index updates after moderation, and reports about 15–20% code reuse across layers to support the single-language stack.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 0:40Multilingual evolution
3. 4:11Clojure intro
4. 7:26Clojure demo
5. 11:37Clojure syntax
6. 15:38Clojure with React
7. 21:12Backend in Clojure
8. 25:10Python ML integration
9. 29:51GraalVM native
10. 33:53Clojure databases
11. 40:10Cross-platform benefits
12. 43:40REPL-driven dev
13. 44:25Clojure pragmatism
14. 45:28Learning resources
15. 46:56Q&A

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