Pre-West Prep: Leon Barrett

April 04, 2015

Talk: Clojure Parallelism: Beyond Futures

Leon Barrett's talk at Clojure/West is about parallelism in Clojure.

Background

Clojure is well known for its parallel programming super powers. Immutable data structures, concurrency primitives, and a few convenient constructs like future and pmap have been there since the beginning. But what's even cooler is how people have been able to build on the strong foundation Clojure established to create new parallel abstractions. Leon Barrett will talk about some of these. The description mentions reducers, tesser, and claypoole.

Rich Hickey gave a talk about reducers back in 2012, focusing on the ideas and abstractions they are based on. A more practical talk was given by Renzo Borgatti at Strange Loop 2013. Kyle Kingsbury gave a talk about tesser, a library which extends Clojure's parallel abstractions to execute in a distributed manner. And Leon Barrett himself wrote a recent blog post about Claypoole.

About Leon Barrett

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