Ep 070: Socket Circus

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: “Websockets.” We talk about spontaneously sending data from the server to the client to address our users’ insecurities.

Selected quotes:

• “Classic engineering solution, let’s just bend a couple of assumptions.”
• “Reloading the web page is 1995-style integration.”
• “Poll every tenth of a second? Yeah, that’ll work till we need to scale past 4 users.”
• “In every engineering choice, there is always a tradeoff.”