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• Building Web Services with Duct
• Derek Troy-West gave a talk “Scaling the Event Stream” about a Clojure/Cassandra distributed system that he built with an NZ company SMX. I worked with them on part of this system a few years ago, and it was a great team and project (talk starts at 6:30).
• Confessions of a threading macro addict
• The ultimate guide on Clojure concurrency from PurelyFunctional.tv
• Authentication with Yada

Libraries & Books.

• I’m still chewing over precept, a declarative programming framework, but it looks really interesting
• Yesql is looking for a maintainer
• Certificaat is a Let’s Encrypt client
• fqcss is an interesting approach to CSS and ClojureScript
• Programming Clojure, Third Edition is in beta with new material on clojure.spec
• klang is a ClojureScript logging library
• Introducing the Keechma Toolbox library
• Chestnut 0.15.0 is out

People are worried about Types. ?

• The broken promise of static typing
• Data Validation with spec
• Jeaye Wilkerson implores developers to use spec. I’ve been developing using Orchestra like he recommends, and have found it hugely helpful in checking return values

Foundations.

• Proposed schedule change for JDK 9

Tools.

• inlein 0.2.0 (Leiningen for scripts) is out
• lein-protoc is a lein plugin for compiling protocol buffers

Recent Developments.

• ClojureScript 1.9.562 is out, with Clojure 1.9.0-alpha17 parity
• Mike Files on ClojureScript compiler performance

Learning.

• Demystifying a Datomic error (I love the Discworld theme in this)
• Video interview on how to get a Clojure job
• K Nearest Neighbours in Clojure
• Dragan Djuric with a linear algebra refresher on Vector Spaces, and Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors