Don't Shed a Tier for Me, Clojure
David Pollak at Clojure/conj 2013
Homoiconicity is cool because the code is the data... but what happens when your data is distributed across a grid of back-end servers and you want to play with that data?
Plugh is an open source log analysis tool that is written in Clojure and runs on a cluster of Riak instances.
Plugh allows the user to logic programming to specify manipulation of the data sets. The same logic program is executed no matter the tier... it's compiled via ClojureScript as a Map/Reduce job on Riak, applied on the server, and even applied in the browser (once again via ClojureScript).
No need for the user to think differently across tiers (SQL for the data warehouse tier, but Excel for the desktop) because the same logic and the same code is used across all tiers.
David Pollak founded Visi.Pro, Cloud Computing for the Rest of Us along with the Visi Language open source project. David founded the Lift Web Framework and continuously contributes to Lift.
David wrote Beginning Scala and ran the first Scala-focused conferences. In the past David wrote software for NextStep (which has morphed into iOS) including Mesa, the world's first real-time spreadsheet. You can find David on Twitter @dpp and IRL finding good Pho restaurants or walking Archer his dog along with his kids in San Francisco.
Plugh is an open source log analysis tool that is written in Clojure and runs on a cluster of Riak instances.
Plugh allows the user to logic programming to specify manipulation of the data sets. The same logic program is executed no matter the tier... it's compiled via ClojureScript as a Map/Reduce job on Riak, applied on the server, and even applied in the browser (once again via ClojureScript).
No need for the user to think differently across tiers (SQL for the data warehouse tier, but Excel for the desktop) because the same logic and the same code is used across all tiers.
David Pollak founded Visi.Pro, Cloud Computing for the Rest of Us along with the Visi Language open source project. David founded the Lift Web Framework and continuously contributes to Lift.
David wrote Beginning Scala and ran the first Scala-focused conferences. In the past David wrote software for NextStep (which has morphed into iOS) including Mesa, the world's first real-time spreadsheet. You can find David on Twitter @dpp and IRL finding good Pho restaurants or walking Archer his dog along with his kids in San Francisco.