Tech Talk on Clojure

Engineers from ThoughtWorks discuss the advantages of Clojure, its benefits for parallel processing, and demonstrate a map-reduce example.

Clojure is a modern functional programming language and currently gets some attention as an interesting programming alternative, even in the business world. Ward Coessen, Naveen Negi Negi and Martin Kramer from ThoughtWorks talk about the advantages of Clojure, why it is interesting in parallel processing, how a "hello world" example looks like and then how you would realise a map-reduce operation. We start from the general aspects of Clojure and then actually dig into some code.