November 2013 - Clojure Users Group Lightning Talks

This month, we'll hear shorter talks from several speakers!

## Clojure/conj Recap

We'll go over some highlights from Clojure/conj, which was last weekend!

## Load testing Meteor with Clojure

Adrian Lanning will be describing a load testing tool developed for his startup, Share911 [1]. Their website uses Meteor [2], a stateful javascript framework based on nodejs, so traditional tools for load testing stateless web sites were not appropriate. Their solution builds on The Grinder [3], an open-source, JVM-based, load testing program to efficiently simulate users on-demand. The finished tool is composed of the following components:

• The Grinder to execute and manage tests
• Customizable test script written in Clojure
• Java library for Meteor DDP communication using websockets
• Test configuration file defining app-specific method calls and subscription information

[1] Share911 - https://share911.com/
[2] Meteor - http://www.meteor.com/
[3] The Grinder - http://grinder.sourceforge.net/

## Resourceful

Avi Flax will share his open source library Resourceful, which augments Compojure’s routes DSL with a high-level macro, enabling the code of a Web API to be expressed in the native paradigm of the Web: resources.