Thanks Leif and Arun ... I will try out your suggestions. I'll have something up and play a bit and come back with more specifics.
Regards, Kashyap On Friday, April 11, 2014 6:53:04 AM UTC+5:30, Leif wrote: > > I think you are not getting a lot of replies because a question about > generic "services" leaves the design space way too large. The choice of > webserver and especially the database are going to depend strongly on the > required throughput, latency, access patterns, lots of other things I'm not > thinking of... > > I *would* look into pedestal and datomic, but just because they are nice > pieces of software with interesting design decisions. I *would not* > recommend > building your first service with them (unless you look at them and decide > they are exactly what you need). > > My 2 cents on writing your first service (possibly throwaway): > > Webserver: Use plain ring + compojure + whatever servlet container you > have now and know how to manage (Tomcat & Jetty work fine) > Database: Whatever database you have now and know how to manage and is > pleasant for your type of data (clients exist for JDBC and almost all noSQL > stores) > > The above is fine if "REST" in your case translates to "CRUD + some > querying." If you want to design a more thorough and careful REST > architecture, Liberator will probably be of interest. > > If you know your service will need work queues and distributed caches and > such, you might want to use Immutant as a platform to prototype, as it > wraps all that up with a nice bow for you. > > And again, if you narrow the design space somewhat, many people way more > informed than me will probably chime in. > > Hope that helps, > Leif > > > On Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, Kashyap CK wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have the opportunity to build a set of services from scratch. I plan to >> use clojure for this. >> I'd like to experiment with options available out there - options such as >> - what webserver, what database etc. I'd like it very much if you could >> share some of your experiences in this and possibly some pitfalls to avoid. >> Regards, >> Kashyap >> > -- 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.
