Clojure: High Performance JVM Programming

Explore the world of lightning fast Clojure apps with asynchronous channels logic reactive programming and more About This Book * Discover Clojures features and advantages and use them in your existing projects * Explore lesser-known and more advanced features constructs and methodologies such as asynchronous channels actors logic programming and reactive programming * Measure and monitor performance and understand optimization techniques Who This Book Is For If youre looking to learn more about its core libraries and delve into the Clojure language in detail then this book is ideal for you. Prior knowledge of the Clojure language is required. What You Will Learn * Understand tools for the Clojure world and how they relate to Java tools and standards (such as Maven) * Write simple multicore programs using Clojures core concepts such as atoms agents and refs * Get to grips with Clojures concurrency and state-management primitives in depth * Analyze latency using the Criterium library * Avoid reflection and boxing with type hints * Maximize the impact of parallelization functional composition and process transformation by composing reducers and transducers * Modify and add features to the Clojure language using macros * Test your code with unit tests specs and type checks to write testable code * Troubleshoot and style your Clojure code to make it more maintainable In Detail Clojure is a general-purpose language from the Lisp family with an emphasis on functional programming. It has some interesting concepts and features such as immutability gradual typing thread-safe concurrency primitives and macro-based metaprogramming which makes it a great choice to create modern performant and scalable applications. This learning path aims at unleashing the true potential of the Clojure language so you can use it in your projects. It begins with installing and setting up the Clojure environment before moving on to explore the language in depth. Youll get acquainted with its various features such as functional programming concurrency reducers transducers core.async and core.logic and so on with a great level of detail. Moving on youll also learn how to enhance performance using Java interoperability and JVM-specific features from Clojure; youll even master language features such as asynchronous channels actors logic programming reactive programming metaprogramming and so on. This learning path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: * Clojure for Java Developers by Eduardo Diaz * Clojure High Performance Programming Second Edition by Shantanu Kumar * Mastering Clojure by Akhil Wali Style and approach This is an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide to start writing Clojure programs making use of all of its varied features and advantages.