The Bay Area Clojure User Group Early/SF Monthly Meetup

Amit Rathore will present Domain Driven Design with Clojure - his Clojure/West talk (so this will be a great opportunity for folks who didn't get to the conference to hear this great talk and have an extended Q&A about it!).

For a lot of us, Clojure is very different from anything we’ve used before. The syntax is different, the functional paradigm is different, multimethods are new, the macro system is alien, immutability, side-effects, mutating state, protocols, data-types, reify... oh my!

Even after understanding the basics of the language, there’s often uncertainty about how to go about writing programs. How to structure applications? What goes where? What kind of layers? What about I/O? What’s the scene with TDD? Mocking or stubbing? What about distributed computation? How to organize namespaces? What’s this bottom-up thing? Composition? Meta-linguistic abstraction? Really?

This talk is drawn from multiple large-scale Clojure systems, across nearly 5 years of real-world Clojure usage. You’ll see how to get started with designing non-trivial applications, how to ensure the code communicates to anyone reading it, and how to ensure you can grow the code-base and the team, with some level of sanity.