Pre-West Prep: Anthony Marcar

March 18, 2015

Talk: Clojure at Scale

Anthony Marcar's talk at Clojure/West is about how to build larger Clojure applications.

Background

Clojure was released in 2007. That means it's coming up on 8 years. It is also a powerful language for parallel computations, like we see in Cascalog and Storm. As big data has become more popular, Clojure's ease with processing lots of information has given it a great role to play recently. It came about at just the right time to take advantage of the big data boom. Several large companies acquired smaller Clojure companies, including Walmart, Staples, and Twitter. And because Clojure runs on the JVM, it's perfect for the enterprise. But we don't have many experience reports about how they have learned to use it.

Anthony Marcar works at Walmart using Clojure. I'm sure there will be some great information in this talk. I don't know specifically what it will be about, but it might be interesting to contrast it with Reflections on a real-world Clojure application, a talk by Malcolm Sparks.

About Anthony Marcar

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