Ep 064: Put Ring on It

Functional Design in Clojure

Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.

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This week, the topic is: "Ring, the foundation of Clojure HTTP" We focus on the bedrock abstraction for all Clojure web applications and marvel at its simplicity.

Selected quotes:

• "Somebody wants to make a web app, and suddenly they're up against all these layers."
• "The law of leaky abstractions is good to remember."
• "HTTP is just a function call over the Internet."
• "Your function gets a map, and it returns a map."