April 2017 meetup

Agenda:

1. Talk: "Putting macros under a micro-lens

" by Govind Krishna Joshi (Nilenso)

Outline:

• Introduction to macros

• Data is code, code is data

• Macro syntax (syntax quote, unquote and splicing)

• Why (why not) use macros?

• Example usage (reducing syntax, control structures)

• Demo

2. Talk: "Logs as data" by Shantanu Kumar (Concur)

Outline:

• Logging with clojure/tools.logging

• SLF4j and Logback

• Log events as collection of attributes

• Log events as JSON data