Specifying Other People’s Data Structures with Spec: an Experience Report

Boston Clojure Group Meetups are held at Akamai (http://www.akamai.com) in the conference rooms on the second floor (200C/D).

Meet & Greet w/ Pizza starts at 6:30, agenda to start no later than 7:00.

Title: Specifying Other People’s Data Structures with Spec: an Experience Report.

Presenter: Avi Flax, Funding Circle

Description: Avi will walk through an his recent experiences with using spec to specify a large nested data structure that had been originally created by a different org for use in JSON or YAML — in other words, designed without spec in mind. Avi will show a few different challenges encountered and the various approaches he tried. Discussion will follow the presentation.

About our speaker: Avi has been I’ve been a developer for 20 years. He has been obsessed with Clojure ever since he was lucky enough to be in the audience for Simple Made Easy in 2011.

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