Clojure is a good choice for Big Data? Which clojure/Hadoop work to use?

2019-07-02 Thread 'Gerard Klijs' via Clojure
My biased first reaction to Hadoop is, do you really need it? It has a separate runtime, some overhead. And it seems to me it much easier to use Kafka, probably connect to get data in/out and Streams/Ksql to process the data. Because of Java interop and the nice generic Kafka Api it's really eas

Good Clojure article by Uncle Bob

2019-08-23 Thread 'Gerard Klijs' via Clojure
And maybe more important it's by Uncle Bob. I have a few colleagues that are almost Uncle Bob devotees, would be great if they would also start exploring Clojure. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to c

Re: 100x startup for Clojure using GraalVM

2019-11-09 Thread 'Gerard Klijs' via Clojure
You probably aware of this, but in case you don't. Running JVM as native image does start up faster, but throughput is less and latency is higher than running on the JVM. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send em

Re: 100x startup for Clojure using GraalVM

2019-11-12 Thread 'Gerard Klijs' via Clojure
Hello world is fun, but doesn't say much. I would like to see benchmarks on the actual application. Ideally it would take several jvm's so also Graal and J9 and also use the commercial version of making a native image, asses how much memory is needed when run on the JVM and limit that, since oth