Today we released our dda-k8s-crate. A software to provision production ready mini k8s clusters. We updated version of all used components. https://github.com/DomainDrivenArchitecture/dda-k8s-crate/releases/tag/1.2.0 As we are going to drop pallet support this will be one oft the last releases. We will continue work in our provs-line. The new k8s setup will be k3s and kotlin based.

Dear all, not sure how many health IT clojurists there are, and some (but not all) of this work is UK specific, but I’ve been quietly working on a suite of core libraries and services using clojure. If anyone is interested, you are welcome to try them out. I’d also welcome feedback, and testing (e.g hermes with non-UK editions of SNOMED) hermes - https://github.com/wardle/hermes - open source SNOMED terminology library and microservice. Use for autocompletion and logic tests. dmd - https://github.com/wardle/dmd - the UK medicines and devices dataset - composes nicely with hermes to supplement the UK edition with concrete prescribing data clods - https://github.com/wardle/clods - UK health and care organisations including geographic mapping (useful for health related GIS) nhspd - https://github.com/wardle/nhspd - lightweight wrapper around the UK postcode directory - essentially geographic data for every postal code deprivare - https://github.com/wardle/deprivare - early work on socioeconomic deprivation indices / ranking - useful for analytics There are more, but these are the most re-usable. Clojure, and the libraries I’ve used - including datalevin, pathom, instaparse - have made this work productive and fun! Thank you all.

Dear friends, this week was a very special one and it is hard containing the excitement. We launched the alpha version of Convex, the first decentralized Lisp in the world. And it looks very much like Clojure: https://convex.world/ It is essentially a worldwide Lisp machine, censorship-resistant, with an immutable and decentralized database anyone can join. A very energy efficient one, modeled around Clojure-like constructs. You'll recognize straightaway the datastructures you love and a transaction language looking strangely familiar.

And since Convex is built on the JVM, here is a fine selection of first-class Clojure libraries covering everything you need: https://github.com/Convex-Dev/convex.cljc It is probably a first in history that you can you anything like that at the REPL: run a node, live interact with the network, issue transactions, do off-chain computation... It certainly gives an unfair advantage to Clojurists in this space. Even if you don't have any interest in blockchain, the database alone is already pretty fascinating, even when used locally. You can retrieve and work with datastructures way larger than memory! The project originally started with Mike Anderson (creator of core.matrix) and we have had a few good names from the Clojure community since then. However we were working in the shadows and are a small team. We are looking for contributors to import more ideas from the Clojure world, help with the tech and the website (we do lack a designer as well!) We are also keen to help you build decentralized applications. I've just opened the #convex channel if you want to talk about the tech, the current libraries, and ideas we could work on together :) Eager to have your feedback!