Hi all! So, I'm new to Clojure! I'm coming in from a Java background and am currently working on a project that has prompted me to have a look at whether Clojure would be useful. I have started by going through the "Brave Clojure" website and working through the exercises and what I've seen has at many times just made me smile at the (at least so far) intuitiveness, simplicity and power of the language. My use case is this:
A real time (sealed bid) auctioning system. We have a maximum number of bids (example 100) that's set by the owner of the product. Our clients then bid on the product. Once a bid is made, it's committed to a database and the counter increments. The next bid is processed, and so on. Once the maximum number of bids is reached, bidding stops. This auctioning system is for a mobile application however the main code for the real time system sits on a web server. The mobile app is a very thin client so simply makes a call to the app server via an API which then processes that request (and returns the result). Requests are processed in order - so we're following a "first come first serve" approach. If at any time a request is due to be processed and the counter hits 100, all requests should gracefully "fail" and be blocked from bidding. Now this is obviously possible in Java, albeit with a lot more code and thinking about the different ways to make everything thread-safe, etc. This is a completely new project so there's no restriction on languages to be used, etc. PS: We're all Java developers. I was really attracted to Clojure because of a) the JVM b) the fact that it seems to be able to handle concurrency effortlessly c) our API needs to scale and so we want to ensure that we can handle the 100K+ connections easily when the project reaches that stage. Obviously this is more to do with the hardware, but the way we build the API is a definite factor. Finally, there seems to be less verbose codebases on Clojure and it might help to keep our overall codebase light and readable! My questions therefore are these: With the time we have (around 1 month for this stage), is this something we can easily build in Clojure? Is the movement from Java to Clojure easy for someone completely new to Clojure? Are the libraries that we might use for this - I had a look at Ring briefly robust for our use case? Does Clojure have good support for using AWS for example? (You can call Java from Clojure so I guess this wouldn't really be an issue.) Does it interface well with MySQL? I'd be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction on this - like I said, really really like what I'm seeing of Clojure but just want to be sure from the community before I recommend this as an action to take! (hash-map :many "thanks") -- 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.
