Jan Stępień

Developer at Stylefruits, a coach at clojureworkshop.de, an alumnus of Warsaw University of Technology and an enthusiast of Clojure and Haskell.

Jan is a developer at stylefruits, a coach at clojureworkshop.de, an alumnus of Warsaw University of Technology and an enthusiast of Clojure and Haskell. When offline, he can be found running marathons or wandering in snowy Alpine wilderness.

Migrating to Clojure. So much fn.

Migrating a technology stack to a new language is rarely a simple task. It's getting even more challenging when what is changed is not only the language but the whole paradigm. This talk covers a story of stylefruits, where we've been gradually replacing a Ruby-based technology stack serving five million monthly visitors with Clojure. What are the costs and benefits of such a transition? How to make the migration gradual and painless? How to make Ruby and Clojure work with each other on the way? How easy is it to switch from a dynamic, object-oriented language to a functional one based on immutability and laziness? These are just some takeaways from this straight-from-the-trenches report.

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