Sponsoring and attending the event EuroClojure
We at ATL, especially me (NAKANO), have focused on the progressiveness of Clojure and Clojurescript as one of the R&Ds.
The reasons for focusing on Clojure and Clojurescript are that I was so impressed with having conversation with @kawasima and his document, and that I felt something like “the time has changed” as I felt in the same way in the predawn of Hadoop a couple of years ago. That is, I have found the new value in Clojure created by a sense of feeling shifted from something “saving” to something “rich”
With these reasons, I wanted the engineers to know the name of Recruit all over Europe including Eastern Europe which has potential in business, so we partially sponsored EuroClojure.
EuroClojure was held for two days at the city of Cracow in Poland this year with 300 participants.
This city has old history and is designated a world heritage site to what Kyoto is to Japan (Warsaw is like Tokyo). The city has been attractive because of startup companies for human resources with high level of development skills centering on the students from AGH University and because of the accelerators made by Google and by German telecommunications (T-mobile).
You can have the idea of what was talked in EuroClojure by watching the edited video in Vimeo and also the memo on the day patiently summarized there by Mr. Phil Potter who is the speaker. So, I will introduce what I thought of being there.
I felt the air of excitement especially when Mr. Rich Hickey, who is an author of Clojure, gave a talk and when Mr. David Nolan, who is famous for Clojurescript and om, made a speech on the next day, both of which made this event greatly successful. I had firsthand knowledge of making progress with speed as these two charismatic people lead this world.
The event was mainly about technology announcements than usage examples, and a story was shared that the Australia Post developed a real billing application and what type of implementation was taken for the synchronous processing in addition to core.async.
Titled as JVM-breakglass, there was an announcement that we made OSS so that we could debug the Tomcat application method by individual implementation using the REPL connection which is a characteristic of Clojure.
Of course, there was a question about whether we can use it suddenly in a production environment, but this trial got paid a lot of attention and I think that the time will come with no doubt if they can fix bugs with this way in the near future.
At the end of the first day, a music group called Meta-eX had a live performance, as they controlled sequencers through MIDI and they directly controlled it in a real time from REPL on Emacs. The event was greatly successful.
