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Becoming an Advanced Groovy Developer

Tom Henricksen covers Design Patterns in Groovy, compilation configuration, mixing Java and Groovy, and calling other languages from Groovy. He shows how to call Scala and Clojure from Groovy.

Tom Henricksen
on Dec 12, 2015

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32:30
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Concurrency Options on the JVM

Jessica Kerr covers some of the concurrency tools existing in JVM languages including ExecutorService, Futures, Akka actors, and core.async coroutines, providing advice on writing deadlock-free code.

Jessica Kerr
on Oct 17, 2015

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54:07
Architecture & Design

LDB: 10x Performance Increase after Rewriting Linked-in C Module in Pure Erlang

Daniel Pezely discusses the 10 fold performance increase of a Lisp and C system after rewriting it in Erlang, outlining where issues existed before and the design and implementation of the new system.

Daniel Pezely
on Sep 05, 2015

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An Introduction to Clojure and ClojureScript

David Tanzer introduces Clojure and ClojureScript, discussing the language basics and some libraries useful for writing real applications.

David Tanzer
on Jul 24, 2015

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48:46
core.async: Concurrency Without Callbacks

Stuart Halloway discusses the design of core.async and some of its capabilities: channels, put and take, go blocks, alts! and alts!!, timeouts, showing their use through code.

Stuart Halloway
on Jun 05, 2015

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01:04:08
Down the Clojure Rabbit Hole

Christophe Grand tells Clojure stories full of immutability, data over behavior, relational programming, declarativity, incrementalism, parallelism, collapsing abstractions, local state and more.

Christophe Grand
on Apr 02, 2015

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01:18:47
Exploring Melody Space with Clojure, Overtone, core.async and core.logic

Thomas Kristensen describes the overall architecture of Composer, a system for composing musing, showing how to build a system that achieves responsiveness while still being flexible.

Thomas Kristensen
on Mar 24, 2015

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38:19
Clojure Is the New C

Robert Martin argues that Clojure is a replacement for C with its simple syntax and minimal semantics.

Robert Martin
on Nov 16, 2014

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01:28:09
Teach Your Eye to Eat (Clojure)

Mario Aquino discusses the structure and organization of Clojure's Lisp syntax as well as special forms in the language for declaring data structures.

Mario Aquino
on Oct 02, 2014

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56:56
Refactoring in Java, Scala, and Clojure

Glen Peterson uses the Expression Problem to compare refactoring in Java, Scala and Clojure, showing how traits minimize changes in Scala when an interface changes and how Clojure avoids some issues.

Glen Peterson
on Aug 02, 2014

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01:11:36
Clojure Core.Async

Timothy Baldridge introduces Clojure’s Core.Async library, presenting the motivation behind the library and examples in Clojure and ClojureScript helpful to decouple subsystems in an application.

Timothy Baldridge
on Aug 01, 2014

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36:30
Clojure in the Large

Stuart Sierra discusses various Clojure features: protocols, records, DI, managing startup/shutdown of components, dynamic binding, interactive development workflow, testing and mocking.

Stuart Sierra
on Jul 18, 2014

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01:06:25