Solving Datomic BI Integration: Why We Built Plenish

When Eleven approached us a few years ago to help build the Business Intelligence (BI) component of their product, they faced a significant challenge: their data resided in Datomic, a powerful immutable database, while their BI tool of choice, Metabase, did not support Datalog. E … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 4 days ago

Why Clojure?

Clojure is not one of the handful of "big" mainstream languages. This means that sometimes people are surprised that we are all in on Clojure. Why go against the grain? Why make it harder for yourself by building on niche technology? Gaiwan is mostly known as a Clojure consultanc … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 1 month ago

Heart of Clojure videos, attendee survey results, and diversity report πŸŽ₯ πŸ“Š πŸ’š

Hello Heart of Clojure 2024 Attendees, Although Heart of Clojure was more than two months ago now, we are still working on documenting and evaluating our experiences there. Read on below to get the news on our conference videos, attendee survey results, and diversity report. Conf … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 4 months ago

Datomic as a Higher-Level Database

More than 20 years ago, when I first began learning programming languages, I read a line in a book: C is a high-level language. But it wasn&apost until years later, during a university class on assembly language, when I had to use jump commands just to write a loop, that I truly … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 5 months ago

Messages from our Sponsors (including jobs πŸ’πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ‘©πŸ½β€πŸ’ΌπŸ’»)

Hope everyone had a wonderful time at Heart of Clojure last week! After the pandemic shutdowns, it&aposs been so hard to find communities meeting in person, so I&aposm proud that we made Heart of Clojure happen for 250+ Clojure and functional programming enthusiasts. In this "we" … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 6 months ago

Heart of Clojure - An Indeterminate Consequential Conference

After coming back to Taiwan, a LinkedIn post written by a Clojurian who attended Heart of Clojure soon caught my eye. Perhaps it&aposs time for some small, new, and incredibly neat and performant Clojure-based consultancy to be born, hmm? It sounds like the author is planning to … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 6 months ago

Heart of Clojure 2024 is Around the Corner

A few more days and hundreds of Clojure and functional programming enthusiasts will descend upon Leuven, Belgium, or tune in online, for the second edition of the Heart of Clojure conference. IT&aposS HAPPENING! It is becoming legitimately hard to contain my excitement! So many c … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 6 months ago

When a Plan Comes Together

Organizing a conference is a giant four-dimensional puzzle. Things are constantly evolving as we figure out the venues, speakers, hotel, lunch, and all the little details. With less than two months to go we&aposre at the point though where the overal picture is starting to take s … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 8 months ago

The Complete Lineup + Late Bird Cliff

We&aposve kept you all in suspense for long enough. Today we&aposre announcing the final Heart of Clojure speakers, and with that the full programme is now available. With that the time has also come to make the decision, do you want to be at the hottest Clojure conference of the … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 8 months ago

More Speaker Announcements: AI, XTDB, and the Foundations of LISP

Today we&aposre announcing our third cohort of speakers and workshop hosts for Heart of Clojure, after we announced the first five on Friday, and the second five on Monday Anna Colom In the tech industry we&aposre no strangers to hype cycles, but the latest AI wave has hit with a … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 9 months ago

Next Batch of Heart of Clojure Speakers

As promised, today you learn who the next five speakers for Heart of Clojure are. Lu Wilson We think it&aposs important, as a conference and as a community, to look beyond the tight-knit Clojure world. To create connections and see what we can learn from others. And so we are chu … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 9 months ago

Announcing First Speakers

We work hard to make Heart of Clojure special, but we couldn&apost have a conference without the amazing speakers and workshop hosts who sent in their submissions. We received 70 proposals from 52 individuals. You all outdid yourself, we got lots of great proposals, and had to ma … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 9 months ago

A Heart for Diversity

To open with a whopper of an understatement, tech is not a very diverse place. It&aposs an onslaught of vanilla (white-cis-het-men). And that&aposs too bad, because we would all be better off if we could benefit from the talent and insight of people from all kinds of backgrounds. … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 9 months ago

Well Known Identifiers and Reloadable Systems

A second Tea Leaves edition, please bear with us as we try to find our stride. Some Goodbyes For economic reasons Gaiwan has recently significantly shrunk its team. We say goodbye to Ariel, Joshua, and Gabriel. They were all great colleagues, and we wish them the best in their fu … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 9 months ago

Ten more days until Heart of Clojure CFP closes

The Call for Proposals for Heart of Clojure is still open until the end of May. That&aposs 10 more days! If you&aposve been putting it off then now would be a good time to get that proposal in. Are you a maintainer or contributor to a Clojure project? Did you know we offer multip … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 10 months ago

Heart of Clojure 2.0

This post contains practical information about the CFP, you can scroll down for that, but we do recommend you read the whole post before submitting a talk or session. In 2019 we organized the first Heart of Clojure, a conference for the Clojure community, in Leuven, Belgium. On t … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 11 months ago

Heart of Clojure Tickets For Sale

Tickets for Heart of Clojure are now available. Grab them here! We have a limited amount of Early Bird tickets, they will be on sale until the end of April, but we expect them to sell out before that. Meanwhile the orga team is in full swing! The next major milestone will be to g … | Continue reading


@gaiwan.co | 11 months ago