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Re: Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?

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At Tide Pool Capital we've been using Clojure for a trading platform on peer-to-peer consumer credit. The system has been in production since the summer of last year. Clojure has been a pleasure to use and the ecosystem has supported all of our needs: Postgresql, redis, rest, soap, 0mq, AWS, client/server, producer-consumer channels, concurrency, etc. Our server is nginx with Pedestal.

Re: Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?

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We're using Clojure at the University Health Network (http://www.uhn.ca/). Our team primarily develops mobile and web applications for clinical use. We started using it about 4 years ago, and now have a number of applications and services written in it.

We're primarily a Java shop and Clojure was appealing because it allowed us to leverage the existing ecosystem, tools, and libraries that we were already using. With Clojure, we were able to develop applications much more rapidly than with Java and we found that the applications were easier to maintain. The latter primarily comes from pervasive immutability and vast overall reduction in code.

We're currently exploring ClojureScript for the client side and already deployed a small app in production using Reagent (http://reagent-project.github.io/). It's worked extremely well for our needs to far.

I was also able to release a number of libraries I developed for work as open source:

- clj-pdf PDF generation - https://github.com/yogthos/clj-pdf

- instant-pdf service - https://github.com/yogthos/instant-pdf

- Selmer templating library - https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer

- markdown-clj - https://github.com/yogthos/markdown-clj

- reagent-forms - data binding library for Reagent - https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent-forms

Re: Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?

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We're using Clojure at the University Health Network ( http://www.uhn.ca/ ). Our team primarily develops mobile and web applications for clinical use. We started using it about 4 years ago, and now have a number of applications and services written in it. We're primarily a Java shop and Clojure was appealing because it allowed us to leverage the existing ecosystem, tools, and libraries that we were already using. Wit…

This is awesome! Curious if you guys also use Luminus? What was the genesis of that?

Re: Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?

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Here's a few: - Walmart Labs - http://jobs.walmart.com/san-bruno/ecommerce/mobile-instore-s... - Staples - http://careers.staples.com/sanmateo/ - Climate Corp (now owned by Monsanto) - https://github.com/TheClimateCorporation - RoomKey http://www.colinsteele.org/post/27929539434/60-000-growth-in... - Puppet Labs - http://puppetlabs.com/blog/new-era-application-services-pupp... - Soundcloud - http://blog.josephwilk.ne…

I'm very curious - did you come up with all of this off the top of your head?

Re: Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?

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We're using Clojure at the University Health Network ( http://www.uhn.ca/ ). Our team primarily develops mobile and web applications for clinical use. We started using it about 4 years ago, and now have a number of applications and services written in it. We're primarily a Java shop and Clojure was appealing because it allowed us to leverage the existing ecosystem, tools, and libraries that we were already using. Wit…

This is awesome! Curious if you guys also use Luminus? What was the genesis of that?

I'm actually the author of Luminus, and it's used as our default template for web apps right now.

Re: Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is awesome! Curious if you guys also use Luminus? What was the genesis of that?

I'm actually the author of Luminus, and it's used as our default template for web apps right now.

(Yes, I realized and hence the question hehe. I've been bugging the list/github issues on luminus for some time now. Excellent project!)
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