Functional Design in Clojure

By Christoph Neumann and Nate Jones

Each week, we discuss a software design problem and how we might solve it using functional principles and the Clojure programming language.... more

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The podcast currently has 118 episodes available.

Functional Design in Clojure episodes:

June 19, 2020Ep 078: Impartial Thoughts
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "partial." We cover some of the ways we use partial, without getting too literal.
Selected quotes:
"We love punning so much, we pun in our code."
"It didn't help that I encountered this in academia."
"Not the function you have, but the function you need."
"I would use partial more if it wasn't so long."
Links:
partial
Episodes:
014: Fiddle with the REPL
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26min
June 12, 2020Ep 077: Thread Some
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "some-> and some->>." We spend some time going through how these macros help keep our code nil-safe.
Selected quotes:
"Keep trying till you hit a nil and then stop."
"That seemed all well and good, and then I hit nil."
"It ends up being just a bit more concise."
"A nice way of testing something and then being able to use it right away."
Links:
some->
some->>
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24min
June 05, 2020Ep 076: Multiple Views on Juxt
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "juxt." We take a turn with juxt, looking at all the ways it can help line up data.
Selected quotes:
"When it feels like core is missing something obvious, there's probably an idiom you need to learn."
"The way you become an excellent writer of Clojure is by reading excellent Clojure code."
Links:
juxt
Advent 2019 part 4, A useful idiom
Bobby Towers' "Just Juxt" posts
Episodes:
012: Embrace the REPL
013: Connect the REPL
014: Fiddle with the REPL
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31min
May 22, 2020Ep 075: Merge With Fun
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "merge-with." We focus in on merge-with, a powerful function for aggregating data.
Selected quotes:
"We pick up idioms from other people."
"What sounds insane at face value actually starts to make a lot of sense."
"It's just a filter, you don't even have to write a function for that."
"The important part in the middle, where we might mess up, is all pure."
"We don't just have an O(n) problem, we have an 0(n) API calls problem."
Links:
merge-with
Episodes:
047: What is "nil punning"?
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27min
May 15, 2020Ep 074: Deploy, They Said. It'll Be Fun, They Said.
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "Deploying Clojure." We survey the myriad ways we've used to launch our code into production, and laugh about the various complexities we've found.
Selected quotes:
"How do you get closure on the development of your Clojure code?"
"What do you mean by production?"
"Tomcat goes to war."
"That was back before containers."
"Trade a little bit of money for a lot of sanity."
"The problem with these things is the configuration you end up with is really simple after you've read 8 hours of documentation."
"The number of lines of code does not indicate the amount of effort."
"Every time you accept a new component into your system, you are also accepting its complexity."
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28min
April 17, 2020Ep 073: Silent Sockets
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "Checking websocket health." We worry about the health of our websockets and, after looking for help from the standards bodies, roll up our sleeves and handle it ourselves.
Selected quotes:
"It's the ghosting in the websocket world."
"With polling, every request is a fresh opportunity to recover from the last request's errors."
"Long polling is just beating the server up at a slower rate."
"By giving your code names with meaning, you can read the code that uses it and comprehend it faster."
"Complexity costs, and you pay in time and confusion."
Related episodes:
012: Embrace the REPL
020: Data Dessert
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39min
April 03, 2020Ep 072: Sea of Sockets
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "Organizing our websocket code." We switch to using a component to manage our websockets, enabling ease of development and future growth.
Selected quotes:
"It feels like every time I use a global, a butterfly dies."
"We don't want to leave the REPL!"
"It's important to keep the abstraction un-leaky."
"When you lower the cognitive load of programming, that makes it more enjoyable."
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33min
March 20, 2020Ep 071: Socket Synergy
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "Using websockets for notification." We wander into the weeds, jumping through the myriad hoops required to deliver a simple notification.
Selected quotes:
"It's like we're taking a regular series and upgrading it somehow."
"Welcome to programming, where you'll spend hours diving into rabbit holes; and still love your work!"
"That sentence you just said sounds something they would say in a movie that would make all the programmers in the audience roll their eyes simultaneously."
"We just replaced one problem with another."
Related episodes:
053: How can I save my data from serialization?
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30min
March 13, 2020Ep 070: Socket Circus
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "Websockets." We talk about spontaneously sending data from the server to the client to address our users' insecurities.
Selected quotes:
"Classic engineering solution, let's just bend a couple of assumptions."
"Reloading the web page is 1995-style integration."
"Poll every tenth of a second? Yeah, that'll work till we need to scale past 4 users."
"In every engineering choice, there is always a tradeoff."
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30min
February 28, 2020Ep 069: Stuck in the Web
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to [email protected], or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the topic is: "Request handler pitfalls." We examine our history writing web handlers and talk about all the ways we've broken them.
Selected quotes:
"Doing a pitfalls episode is easy, because you just need to look at your scars."
"Letting exceptions escape is TMI for the web."
"Multiple error handling middleware is ok. They're in place, just in case."
"Smaller doesn't necessarily mean simpler."
"A little bit of repetition can lead to a lot of clarity."
"Java can turn just about anything into a string."
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29min

FAQs about Functional Design in Clojure:

How many episodes does Functional Design in Clojure have?

The podcast currently has 118 episodes available.