On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Mike Grabowski <grab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys, > > I am so excited to join Clojure bandwagon, last weeks have been super > exciting, pretty much in love with Clojure syntax. As we are currently > building an application broken into smaller micro services, I thought I am > gonna make one or two Clojure based modules. Although the initial purpose > of picking the language was to do some CPU demand calculations and data > processing, I found it really simple yet enjoyable to write REST api as > well (we also use Node.js and Elixir for that purpose and it works pretty > well - especially with Elixir thanks to awesome yet simple Erlang model > where you can `spawn&block` and be happy). > > I've seen lots of benchmarks already featuring Aleph, Jetty, Vert.x and > other HTTP servers and I am currently with `Aleph` thanks to its ability to > handle channels and futures out of the box. Unfortunately, because I spent > so many years with Node.js and stopped using Java ages ago, I just can't > stop thinking about non-blocking evented IO interactions. It just does not > feel right to me to block the thread when e.g. logging in an user. > Unfortunately, there are no NIO drivers for the database engines I am > interested in (Neo4J, Mongo) so async channels are not the way to go. > > Any advices or interesting thoughts? Maybe I am missing something as I am > not entirely sure if evented IO is always speeding up the overall > performance. Any performance optimisations are welcome. I am especially > unhappy with one Neo4J request that takes 1.5 second to finish (it's only > because the database is hosted on free Heroku plan and this is not going to > happen in production but I find it quite a good place to tweak the > optimisations and concurrency). > > Another question is - is there any documentation generator that can parse > your comments, take keywords like `:params` or `:returns` (just the idea) > and generate beautiful API docs out of the box? Swagger is not a way to go > as it requires me to use `Schema` plugin - I am currently with `bouncer` > thanks to more real-life validators as well as user friendly messages that > I can just print to users out of the box (maybe it's worth building as an > open source module then) > It would be really cool if documentation could be generated from Liberator resource defs (http://clojure-liberator.github.io/). Maybe it's possible right now and I don't know about it. > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kind Regards, Atamert Ölçgen ◻◼◻ ◻◻◼ ◼◼◼ www.muhuk.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
