Destructuring the Enterprise
summary
A government loan system is rebuilt in Clojure on the JVM with production in six months, a small team (three to five pairs) and three bugs reported at launch, using Leiningen, REPL and Cursive for rapid feedback, Prismatic Schema and MongoDB for schema work, and Java interop where needed. Immutable data structures and small composable libraries reduce concurrency bugs and lines of code; tradeoffs include hiring fewer but more motivated Clojure developers, syntax resistance, occasional impedance with Java libraries, and a need for upskilling.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:38Meet Chris & Gary
- 8:51Design
- 15:43Hiring
- 21:52Syntax
- 27:26Immutability
- 35:01Interop
- 39:15Adoption
- 43:23Conclusions
- 44:55Credits
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