Take a look at Stuart Sierra’s talk “Clojure in the Large” from Clojure/West:
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-Large-scale-patterns-techniques He talks about several techniques for managing boundaries, including protocols. Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood On 9/15/16, 12:50 PM, "Cameron Barre" <clojure@googlegroups.com on behalf of cjba...@gmail.com> wrote: Has anyone used protocols to create explicit boundaries between the bigger pieces of their systems? We want to track/control the interactions between these sub-systems and are considering using protocols to define public APIs. Is this good practice? Would it be better to simply create our API like a normal library and be explicit about which functions are part of the public API? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.