Clojure Programming Cookbook

Handle every problem you come across in the world of Clojure programming with this expert collection of recipes

About This Book

• Discover a wide variety of practical cases and real world techniques to enhance your productivity with Clojure.
• Learn to resolve the everyday issues you face with a functional mindset using Clojure
• You will learn to write highly efficient, more productive, and error-free programs without the risk of deadlocks and race-conditions

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Clojure developers who have some Clojure programming experience and are well aware of their shortcomings. If you want to learn to tackle common problems, become an expert, and develop a solid skill set, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Manipulate, access, filter, and transform your data with Clojure
• Write efficient parallelized code through Clojure abstractions
• Tackle Complex Concurrency easily with Reactive Programming
• Build on Haskell abstractions to write dynamic functional tests
• Write AWS Lambda functions effortlessly
• Put Clojure in use into your IoT devices
• Use Clojure with Slack for instant monitoring
• Scaling your Clojure application using Docker
• Develop real-time system interactions using MQTT and websockets

In Detail

When it comes to learning and using a new language you need an effective guide to be by your side when things get rough. For Clojure developers, these recipes have everything you need to take on everything this language offers.

This book is divided into three high impact sections. The first section gives you an introduction to live programming and best practices. We show you how to interact with your connections by manipulating, transforming, and merging collections. You’ll learn how to work with macros, protocols, multi-methods, and transducers. We’ll also teach you how to work with languages such as Java, and Scala.

The next section deals with intermediate-level content and enhances your Clojure skills, here we’ll teach you concurrency programming with Clojure for high performance. We will provide you with advanced best practices, tips on Clojure programming, and show you how to work with Clojure while developing applications.

In the final section you will learn how to test, deploy and analyze websocket behavior when your app is deployed in the cloud. Finally, we will take you through DevOps. Developing with Clojure has never been easier with these recipes by your side!

Style and approach

This book takes a recipe-based approach by diving directly into helpful programming concepts. It will give you a foolproof approach to programming and teach you how to deal with problems that may arise while working with Clojure. The book is divided into three sections giving you the freedom skip to the section of your choice depending on the problem faced.

Makoto Hashimoto is an IT architect based in Japan. He has been involved in a lot of projects as an architect and has led them successfully with an agile development style. Makoto loves functional programming languages and became an enthusiast of Clojure since his first encounter with this language. His current interest lies in the big data domain, and he constantly thinks up new ways to use Clojure for data science. He loves spending time with his family during weekends and apart from that he loves cooking, classical music, arts and sports.

Nicolas Modrzyk currently holds the post of CTO and head of consulting for Karabiner Software, Tokyo. He also heads the firm Bonjournico Software, where he advises start-ups on short development cycles and new technologies to market fast but in a relaxed manner. Nicolas is fond of solving problems and has enjoyed a renewed enlightenment with Clojure and functional programming in general. Living in Japan, he has published an introductory book on Clojure Programming in Japanese-with crossed legs and green tea!

Away from the computer, he is also father of two awesome daughters and spends a great amount of time playing music with great people.