Notes.

This week I wrote an article speculating about the subtext of Alphabet’s lawsuit against Uber.

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• James Reeve’s Integrant was definitely the standout link for me this week. It is an alternative to Component and Mount, and I really like it. I highly recommend it, just to hear his thoughts on libraries and frameworks.
• The prolific Daniel Higginbotham has a new site Community Picks up which aggregates book recommendations for subreddits, and he has a new book/quest out: Deploying Your First Clojure App… From The Shadows.
• Everybody OOMs

Libraries & Books.

• Clojure Standard Library March 2017 update
• Postagga, a natural language processing library
• muance, a virtual dom library for ClojureScript

People are worried about Types. ?

• Stuart Halloway provides Clojure spec’s missing piece

Foundations.

• Coding for SSD’s
• Decreasing 99%ile file system latency by 42x
• OLTP through the looking glass, this paper explores speeding up a database 20x by removing components that were needed 20 years ago when RAM was much smaller than database sizes.

Tools.

• Cursive 1.5.0-eap3 is out
• Virgil recompiles your Java files inside your lein repl

Recent Developments.

• Clojure 1.9.0-alpha15 is out

Learning.

• The truth about nothing

Misc.

• Good advice from aphyr on how to do well at your next technical interview