Jun 24, 2021 Introduction In my previous corporation, an Azure guy once told me: “It is not possible to be an expert in more than one cloud. If you want to be an expert in Azure you have to focus on Azure.” …

Introduction Recently I edited a blog post in which I interviewed Metosinians regarding their favorite Clojure editors. It was quite interesting to see that there is a diverse group of editors in use. In that blog post, I told myself that I have configured my Emacs/Cider setup to be as close…

Introduction After implementing my web-store exercise using six languages (Clojure, Python, Javascript, Java, Go, and Kotlin) and with 5 data stores (CSV, DynamoDB, Azure Tables, PostgreSQL, and Datomic, read more about in my blog posts, e.g. Five Languages — Five Stories ) I was pretty much fed up with that exercise…

Introduction At Metosin we use our own libraries quite a lot in our projects — therefore a good reason to learn to use these libraries. …

Introduction I have earlier used Terraform to create Kubernetes in AWS EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) and Azure AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and therefore I wanted to create Kubernetes also in the GCP (Google Cloud Platform) to have some perspective on how different the Kubernetes infrastructure is to create in these…

Introduction In my previous Integrant exercise, I had converted my earlier SimpleServer exercise to use the Integrant state management library. In that Integrant exercise, there were three datastores: in-memory datastore that read the initial data from CSV files, AWS DynamoDB datastore, and PostgreSQL datastore. …

Introduction This is the second part of my Clojure Power Tools series (I’m a bit interested myself how many blog posts I will write to this series). If you haven’t read the first part I recommend you to read it first: Clojure Power Tools Part 1. In this second blog article…

Introduction I have been working at Metosin for some months now and I’m learning new Clojure tricks almost every day. I list here some of my favorite Clojure tricks that I have learned either from various Clojure presentations or at Metosin. I know that for a newcomer Clojure might be a…

Introduction I created a simple frontend for my SimpleServer exercise a couple of years ago: SimpleFrontend. In that exercise I used Reagent library which is a minimalistic React wrapper for ClojureScript — I have documented the exercise in Become a Full Stack Developer with Clojure and ClojureScript! blog post. At my…