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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "pure data, pure simplicity". We loop back to our new approach and find more, and less, than we expected! Our discussion includes: Sportify reaches the end zone! How can you make software extremely reliable? How can you keep logic pure when it depends on the outcome of I/O? What is the "think, do ..read more

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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "trying again". We throw our code in a loop, and it throws us for a loop. Our discussion includes: Sportify continues! When is it time to stop developing? How do we handle retries? What if you need to recur from catch? How do we recover mid-process? Where should the recovery logic go? Is there a w ..read more

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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "gathering debugging context". Our downloads fail at random, but our dead program won't give us any answers. Our discussion includes: Sportify! Now, with even more exceptions! How do you know the state of the application after it has already died? Where do you catch the exception? What do you log ..read more

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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "separating data from I/O". We need to test our logic, but the I/O is getting in the way. Our discussion includes: Bugs in our Clojure code? What?! You must mean Javascript. When does Hammock Time not help? How logic grows and expands. Why you should test your logic. What parts do not need testing ..read more

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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "testing around I/O". We start testing our code only to discover we need the whole world running first! Our discussion includes: How do you unit test an I/O heavy process? Should you be REPL-driven or test-driven? What is the REPL suited for? What are tests suited for? What do you need to know to ..read more

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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "handling endless errors". We discover when giving up is the way to get ahead. Our discussion includes: Finishing up our Sportify tracer-bullet implementation. What context can you put in a file name? Tricks on working with time information. Trying to "fix" a situation vs adding more context. What ..read more

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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "building up reliability". We push our software to reach out to the real world and the real world pushes back. Our discussion includes: Progress on the Sportify implementation. How do you keep development rapid as functionality grows? How can you learn and iterate quickly as you encounter failures ..read more

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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "building up a solution". We grow beyond our REPL-driven pieces toward an end-to-end solution. Our discussion includes: How to move from exploration to implementation. The overall process for Sportify highlights. How our REPL exploration set us up for implementation. What is a "tracer bullet" impl ..read more

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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "exploration cessation". We realize we're done exploring when all of the pieces fall into place. Our discussion includes: We fiddle at the REPL to explore Sportify! What is random access exploration? What are you learning as you explore? How to interact with AWS and S3 Separating out operation ins ..read more

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 feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This week, the topic is: "exploring new data and APIs". We peruse APIs to uncover the data hidden beneath. Our discussion includes: More exploration of Sportify! How to explore a database from the REPL. How to work with SQL rapidly. How structural editing speeds things up. Building up the vocabulary of exploration. What s ..read more