ClojureBerlin LIGHTNING TALKS EDITION

Hello everyone,

This month, in addition to a presentation by George Lipov, we're doing a round of lightning talks.

• ⚡LIGHTNING TALKS ⚡

Short talks are fun. We have slots available - bring a topic and take the stage!

Topics can include anything from library discoveries and personal projects to experience reports... anything (loosely) connected to Clojure or Lisp really. Prepare slides, or speak off the cuff. It's all up to you... except for one thing: a lightning talk cannot exceed 5 minutes!

And our one full-length talk:
• Ghostwheel – Robustness and Observability Without the Pain
(George Lipov)

Clojure is powerful and beautiful, but refactoring, rewriting and extending large codebases can be a fragile process. Spec with generative testing helps alleviate the pain, but its UX leaves a lot to be desired.

What can we learn from advanced statically typed languages to achieve a similarly easy automated verification of type correctness in Clojure without actually having to deal with a type system or the manual writing and maintenance of unit tests? How can we move beyond breakpoint and println debugging and what does it have to do with testing? This talk will present an answer to these questions and change your Clojure life (or you get your money back).

George (https://github.com/gnl) is the author of Ghostwheel and a Clojurian suffering from a mild obsession with developer UX

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Clojure Berlin adheres to the Berlin Code of Conduct (http://berlincodeofconduct.org/de/).

Your organizers,

Paulus (pesterhazy@gmail.com) and Ben (ben.j.lovell@gmail.com)