Betting our Startup on Clojure by Nick McAvoy
Nick McAvoy is on a quest for simplicity, and he is delighted to have found Clojure along the way. At Crossbeam, he manages a team of engineers known as the Pinto Beams. Elsewhere, other simple loves of his include: naturally leavened bread; Aristotelian cosmology; the bicycle; the piano; marriage and fatherhood. He lives in Philadelphia, USA with a side of South Korea.
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The chapters:
00:00 Welcome by Magnus
00:27 Intro of Nick
03:52 Agenda of the presentation
05:10 Isn’t this the answer?
05:59 Thinking about language choice
08:00 The partner’s dilemma
09:21 Year One: Language choice – Python
11:25 The troubles with snakes
15:26 The Goldblum – fighting complexity
21:46 Model essentials
25:22 Year two: Going for it
30:12 But, can you hire for that?
33:20 Teaching Clojure
34:44 Year 3: Growing up
35:30 Year 4: Living the dream
37:19 Conclusion
38:12 Questions
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