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Still Beating the Averages

"Beating the Averages" makes a compelling case that a start-up consisting of a small team of Lisp developers has a strategic advantage. How can a company grow with Lisp? At Gaiwan we have developed an approach that works rather well...

Unboxing the JDK

By Alys Brooks It’s easy to forget the Java Development Kit is, in fact, a kit.  Many Clojure developers, myself included, rarely work with commands like java directly, instead using lein, boot,

A Tale of Three Clojures

By Alys Brooks Recently, I was helping a coworker debug an issue with loading a Clojure dependency from a Git repository. (If you don’t know you can do this; it’s very

Delivering devops enterprise summit

We have worked closely with Gene Kim and his team at IT Revolution to build and deliver the Dev Ops Enterprise Summit online conference. Gaiwan ended up building a bespoke conference platform with Clojure, ClojureScript, Datomic, Redis, Ansible, and hosted everything on Google Cloud.