What else can Netflix do for you? + Clojure for the Web

A rough schedule...
18:30 pizza, courtesy of Circle (+drinks & snacks in Intercom).
19:15 Vote on amending the constitution.
19:20 talk #1 by Chris Mowforth.
19:55 break
20:10 talk #2 by Oliver Mooney.
20:45 finish

Talk #1 'Building Cloud Services with Netflix OSS'

'Customer-facing APIs that are both high-quality and scalable are a crucial component of any SaaS business, but it's often hard to justify building them from scratch. Luckily, Netflix has a wide range of liberally licensed open-source libraries for making services that are scalable, resilient and pleasant to consume. Some of them use Clojure, too!'

Speaker profile for Chris Mowforth: 'Chris is an Engineer at Logentries, a log management and analytics company based in Dublin and Boston. Having worked in a variety of tech and financial firms big & small, he's currently having fun working with buzzwords like Akka, Clojure, Netty and some JVM internals.'

Talk #2: "Developing database-driven websites without frameworks in Clojure"

"There’s no dominant web framework for Clojure. The accepted wisdom is to compose your own from whatever libraries best suit your needs. This talk reviews the experience of building a database for an Irish charity, converting their existing paper-based forms into a web-driven interface with Clojure, usable on multiple devices. It’ll include a survey of useful libraries, why the current set works, and what I wished worked better. The libraries that’ll be reviewed include Ring & Liberator for handling requests, Bidi for routing, YesQL for database integration and Enlive for webpage generation on the server side, and Reagent & Kioo in Clojurescript for for some mini-applications on the client side."

Speaker profile for Oliver Mooney: "the founder of GetBulb, a data visualisation startup based in Dublin's city centre. He coded the first version of the app (which you can try on http://www.getbulb.com (http://www.getbulb.com/)) in JavaScript, using the SproutCore framework, as used by Apple. The next version is being produced in ClojureScript. GetBulb has won several awards including the 2012 Irish Times Digital Challenge."