During a vacation cruise, a programmer's ship encounters a freak storm that leaves her shipwrecked on a desert island. Luckily the contents of one sturdy suitcase makes it to shore. With the help of a computer, Clojure, John McCarthy papers, and a Parrot A...

Riemann is a product that helps you answer the important questions in life. Like whether your site is up or whether you are taking subscriptions. As a complex event processing piece of middleware for handling large volumes of metrics it might not be as sui...

This talk will be a whistlestop tour of how Clojure's younger brother can really change the way you write code for a browser. We'll cover getting up and running, I'll be sharing my experiences of ClojureScript thus far (including the awesomeness that is co...

Cascalog is a Clojure library for writing Hadoop jobs using a declarative syntax. In this talk we demonstrate how to use Cascalog 2 to determine groups of similar Twitter users.

Using Clojure(Script) to talk MQTT MQTT is a lightweight pub/sub messaging protocol originally designed by IBM and Cirrus Link Solution and is now in the process of being standardised by OASIS. The Eclipse Paho project has released open source C, Java and...

David Pollak has written a popular framework in and a book about Scala. He's been doing Scala since 2006. David has picked up Clojure recently and started work on his Plugh framework. David will discuss his views on Clojure vs. Scala on the following dimen...

Jamie Brandon: Talking about stuff. In idiomatic clojure, data is not hidden behind classes and methods but instead left lying around in a homogenous heap of stuff. Strucjure is a library for describing the shape of your stuff. You provide a declarative g...

One of the main attractions of Clojure is it’s support for concurrency, but it is possible to get a lot done without really exercising the concurrency features. This talk aims to cover concurrency, parallelism (and why they are not the same thing) Software...

2013 was the year when Clojure 'went async'. This talk and live demo will show a real-world event trigger an 'event wave', rippling through a processing stack, via a multitude of middleware onto a web page. We'll explain the components involved as we trace...

To everyone's great surprise, writing a programming language isn't that hard. There's a vast amount of work involved in getting it to production-standard, but the core ideas are pleasingly simple. In this talk you'll learn how to throw together a programm...

To end an epic day of all things Clojure, we are entreated to live music session! Armed with Clojure, Sam Aaron explores how programming languages can be used to create some truly awesome music!