A recurring core.async pattern

I’ve found myself using Clojure core.async in a very specific way on several occasions, and I thought it might be worth sharing.

MongoDB profiling

When running MongoDB in Docker, diagnostics logs are sent to STDOUT by default. Since MongoDB version 4.4 these logs have been in a structured JSON format, which makes it a little cumbersome to use the profiling tool in mtools.

What I allow to shape me

It is impossible for any human to take in all the information available to us. As new technologies emerge, both the amount and pace at which information hit us keeps increasing. With an abundance of information, how do we choose which we allow our attention to absorb and which to ignore?

Neo4clj - an introduction

It started with a business idea a few years ago… a business idea that would require a graph database, specifically Neo4j.

We did explore the existing libraries at the time, but decided to “roll our own” for reasons that now eludes me… and work began on Neo4clj.

Becoming friends with Clojure protocols

I’ve been programming Clojure for several years, and yet I’ve managed to avoid protocols during all that time (I’ve also avoided macros, but that is another story). I found myself always having a colleague do the “dirty work” or some sad excuse as of why it wasn’t necessary right now. No more… this week I got my hands dirty.