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You're reading from Hands-On Reactive Programming with Clojure Create asynchronous, event-based, and concurrent applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789346138

Length 298 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Clojure

Tools

ClojureScript

Concepts

Reactive Programming

Authors (2):

Konrad Szydlo

Leonardo Borges

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. What is Reactive Programming? FREE CHAPTER

2. A Look at Reactive Extensions

3. Asynchronous Programming and Networking

4. Introduction to core.async

5. Creating Your Own CES Framework with core.async

6. Building a Simple ClojureScript Game with Reagi

7. The UI as a Function

8. A New Approach to Futures

9. A Reactive API to Amazon Web Services

10. Reactive Microservices

11. Testing Reactive Apps

12. Concurrency Utilities in Clojure

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Appendix - The Algebra of Library Design

CloudFormation

The first service that we will look at is CloudFormation. This makes sense, as the APIs found there will give us a starting point for finding information about the resources in a given stack.

The describeStacks endpoint

The describeStacks endpoint is responsible for listing all of the stacks associated with a particular AWS account. For a given stack, the response will look as follows:

{"Stacks" 
   [{"StackId" 
     "arn:aws:cloudformation:ap-southeast-2:337944750480:stack/DevStack-62031/1", 
     "StackStatus" "CREATE_IN_PROGRESS", 
     "StackName" "DevStack-62031", 
     "Parameters" [{"ParameterKey" "DevDB&quot...

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Authors (2)

Konrad Szydlo

Konrad Szydlo is a psychology and computing graduate from Bournemouth University. He has worked with Clojure for the last 8 years. Since January 2016, he has worked as a software engineer and team leader at Retailic, responsible for building a website for the biggest royalty program in Poland. Prior to this, he worked as a developer with Sky, developing e-commerce and sports applications, where he used Ruby, Java, and PHP. He is also listed in the Top 75 Datomic developers on GitHub.

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Leonardo Borges

Leonardo Borges is a programming languages enthusiast who loves writing code, contributing to open source software, and speaking on subjects he feels strongly about. He has used Clojure professionally, both as a lead consultant at ThoughtWorks and as a development team lead at Atlassian, where he helped build real-time collaborative editing technology. Leonardo is currently the CTO for MODRON. Apart from this book, he contributed a couple of chapters to Clojure Cookbook, O'Reilly. Leonardo founded and currently runs the Sydney Clojure User Group in Australia. He also writes posts about software, with a focus on functional programming, on his website. When he isn't writing code, he enjoys riding motorcycles, weightlifting, and playing the guitar.

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