Modern functional programming with Clojure

Clojure is a modern functional programming language and currently gets some attention as an interesting programming alternative, even in the business world. Ward Coessen, Naveen Negi Negi and Martin Kramer from ThoughtWorks talk about the advantages of Clojure, why it is interesting in parallel processing, how a "hello world" example looks like and then how you would realise a map-reduce operation. We start from the general aspects of Clojure and then actually dig into some code.
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Dr. Martin Kramer

My passion is delivering great software products and building high-performing teams. With 20+ years experience in the software industry spanning a wide range of technologies, methodologies, i
ndustries, and countries I have led small teams and also engagements up to 100+ people.

My background also includes a PhD in computer science with an award winning dissertation.

Apart from work am serious about playing jazz and like challenges like running marathons. As an alumnus of Germany’s prestigious academic scholarship foundation I voluntarily help young students to establish mentorships to fellow alumni. I also voluntarily help to promote inclusion for school children.

Ward Coessens is a lead developer at ThoughtWorks.

Naveen Negi Negi is a lead consultant at ThoughtWorks.

[AlexandreKarpov]

I still think that I was more than honored to work with Clojure back in Runa in 2015. Getting paid for writing in Lisp was a dream come true.

[simonced]

Really enjoyed the format, great introduction to Clojure.

[Emma_posts]

High Quality material here ! thanks for making this

[elvicsolgb]

I think one of the best features of FP is the implementation of ‘Currying’. The issue of running out of memory with every recursive computation is something that you’ll no longer worry about no matter how large the data set you’re trying to work on. It elegantly solved all these problems about performance, memory management & code readability. No more hacks just to extract every inch of what can be optimised in your codes. (It’s all turtles all the way down).