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by d_t_w 17d ago
> do we want clojure to develop a parallel story for enterprise development I don't think this is feasible, partly because these enterprise frameworks tend to be abstract systems, and I haven't seen any evidence in the Clojure
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by d_t_w 20d ago
Hello, I'm the author. Clojure has some limited support for Java annotations, it's just that support is a bit ungainly, and that introduces enough difficulty that it leads to frameworks like Quarkus having no real adoption in the
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Where to for Clojure and Enterprise Web Applications(github.com)
14 points by d_t_w 22d ago|5 comments
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Beyond Reagent: Migrating to React 19 with HSX and RFX(factorhouse.io)
3 points by d_t_w 1y ago|1 comments
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by d_t_w 1y ago
Introducing two new open sources Clojure UI libraries by Factor House. HSX and RFX are drop-replacements for Reagent and Re-Frame, allowing us to migrate to React 19 while maintaining a familiar developer experience with Hiccup and similar
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by d_t_w 1y ago
We have been using Apache ECharts in our products[1] since 2020. Cannot recommend it enough - absolutely fantastic library, great documentation, zero issues of any impact to us in five years. My only wish is for the keyboard accessibility t
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by d_t_w 2y ago
My co-founder uses the phrase minimal-viable-company for maximum-viable-product. We bootstrapped for 5 years to well over $1M+ ARR before recently closing a seed round[1], Clojure played a large part in our ability to deliver as a small tea
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by d_t_w 3y ago
Congratulations on building something great! It is immensely satisfying to build something that you believe in and succeed in selling it. I founded my company in 2019 and my experiencing and motivations in bootstrapping mirror yours. We are
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by d_t_w 3y ago
https://factorhouse.io/kpow/ An enterprise toolkit for Apache Kafka (and now another for Flink). I spent years working in large enterprise orgs, a few more working with distributed systems. Along the way I picked up Cl
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by d_t_w 3y ago
Question from an Australian(ish) here. If you Americans buy a house with an 8% mortgage today, can you remortgage in the future if/when the rate drops. Is the buy-out penalty of remortgaging somehow higher than just selling / repu
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by d_t_w 3y ago
Yes, sure is! https://kpow.io/ You can get started with the Community Edition for free, it includes our JQ implementation (we call it kJQ - https://docs.kpow.io/features/data-inspect/kjq-filters )
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by d_t_w 3y ago
This is great, JQ is brilliant. I love JQ so much we implemented a subset of JQ in Clojure so that our users could use it to munge/filter data in our product (JVM and browser based Kafka tooling). One of the most fun coding pieces I&#x
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by d_t_w 3y ago
I run a bootstrapped software company, not at the $100M scale. My interest piqued I clicked, had a look at Aha! (having never heard of it before) and immediately thought - hey I could use this. You got me, ka pai, haha. Any insight on how t
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by d_t_w 3y ago
Hi @richieartoul, does warpstream support the standard Kafka Admin API? We build an admin console / dev tooling for Kafka ( https://kpow.io ) that supports Kafka 1.0+ including Redpanda due to their fairly strict adherence to
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by d_t_w 3y ago
Two Daft Punk outfits with about 70m of EL wire coupled with arduinos plugged into LED arrays stuck inside bicycle helmets. Turned out pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHrWllxRLgQ Wrote the step-by-step and uplo
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by d_t_w 3y ago
I started on the JVM in '97 at University. Damn I'm old. The company I founded uses full stack Clojure for our product development ( https://kpow.io ). We're a small team pushing through a big product roadmap at pac
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by d_t_w 4y ago
You just described the last decade of my career more succinctly than I could. Only extension being I applied the momentum boost to bootstrapping a startup and escaped the enterprise world entirely (other than sales back to that world). Good
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by d_t_w 4y ago
I have never felt like I am faking it, is that really strange?
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by d_t_w 4y ago
Similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hallowes
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by d_t_w 4y ago
I'm a co-founder of a company called Factor House[1]. We build a devtool called Kpow for Apache Kafka[2] and I guess you could say we rely on PLG. I can't say I had heard of the term when we started back in 2018. We are bootstrapp
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ANN: Factorhouse/Slipway – A Clojure Companion to Jetty(github.com)
2 points by d_t_w 4y ago|0 comments
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by d_t_w 4y ago
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
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by d_t_w 4y ago
I'm a founder and one of the point technical people for Kpow ( https://kpow.io ). We're a bootstrapped, self-funded, global business in a technical niche. Kpow is a toolkit for Apache Kafka, so basically we build an expe
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by d_t_w 4y ago
We have modelled our company/product specifically on JetBrains. We're also bootstrapped, self-funded, etc. We build a tool for Apache Kafka ( https://kpow.io ), it's not a SaaS product, it's a single docker con
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by d_t_w 4y ago
Write a lot of programs. If you learn quickly the rest will fall in to place. Don't pay too much attention to the constant flux of industry dogma, focus on working solutions. Stop reading HN.
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by d_t_w 4y ago
> If we used interop for everything mundane, Clojure would really just be an S-expression shaped husk over Java code. Not a very good solution. Interop into the host system in Clojure is idiomatic. I think often there is a misunderstandi
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by d_t_w 4y ago
This is my experience also (10+ years with Clojure). Macros extend the language. I don't need to do that often. I think I've written a dozen macros in ten years and deleted all but one of them. My current codebase has two macros,
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by d_t_w 4y ago
Kafka Streams is a core part of the open-source Apache Kafka project. You may be mistaking it for kSQL, or ksqlDB as they call it now, which is a Confluent project built on top of Kafka Streams.
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by d_t_w 4y ago
RE: Clojure startup times, the full Kpow web app starts in ~7s.
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by d_t_w 4y ago
Do you have a reference for Clojure's 'insane amounts of memory' use? Our product ( https://kpow.io ) is written in vanilla Clojure/Clojurescript, it will quite happily run with a 64MB heap for smaller workload

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