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Core.async - Communicating Sequential Processes using Channels, in Clojure

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Rich Hickey presents the motivation, design and use of the Clojure core.async library, the reasons for choosing the CSP approach and how it helps to structure applications.

Bio

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure and designer of Datomic, is a software designer with over 25 years of experience in various domains. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and finger printing, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listenings, in a variety of languages. He is the CTO at Cognitect.

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Jan 06, 2014

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  • Rich Hickey is like Eckhart Tolle for the IT industry

    by Alexander Semenov,

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    Rich Hickey is like Eckhart Tolle for the IT industry. While Eckhart reveals old truths which awake from the dream of thought, Rich awakes people from the dream of complexity.

  • Bounded Contexts

    by Richard Bolkey,

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    Rich's description of whether the model translates to distributed systems (at ~44min) is a pretty good example of the importance of bounded contexts (from DDD) and the tension to break them.

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