Talk & Do Clojure

Happy New Year, Clojurians!

We'll kick off our 2016 activities in Nashua on Wednesday at 6:30.

Kim Kinnear will start us off, introducing us to some Clojure libraries he's used and found interesting. We share Kim's hope that his talk will inspire others to share similar experience reports at future meetings.

Paul deGrandis will then give us a quick overview of Jloj, an experiment to take Clojure's interop story into Java 8. He'll show some tips and tricks to effective interop'ing, as well as some handy ways to use and consume Java8 features in Clojure (and vice versa).

Following that, Paul will talk about the 9P protocol and illustrate how Bell Labs created a superior platform for Microservices in 1985. This talk will be littered with demos, as he unions together multiple services, written in multiple languages (including Clojure!), and run shell commands across the entire cluster! As a bonus, you'll learn how `ls` is implemented!

If we have time, we will do a collaborative group activity focused on Pentominoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino). We'll see you there!

--Matt & Aaron