going to try and persuade my employer to send me there but have nothing confirmed yet. Why?

@cezar: @richiardiandrea and I are both going. I'm hoping to meet some other Canadian Clojure programmers.

yeah, looking forward to that myself! Alas not sure if there will be a $ and time budget for me to go

I saw a message on twitter that looked like @avey_q was going too

@cezar: Where in Canada are you? In Edmonton here.

Atlantic Canada (Saint John, NB specifically)

quite a ways away 🙂

Oh cool, I love it there (only visited for a short time though). Are there many local companies / people using Clojure?

No, the IT community in New Brunswick is pretty small but surprisingly vibrant. There is at least one startup here that are 100% Clojure though

and I'm goading my employer to use Clojure more extensively (so far got Datomic in the door though which is a great first step)

Wow that's really cool. Do you have to use Datomic from other languages?

yeah, from Java. Not ideal but still much better than try-ConnectionPool->PrepStatement->ResultSet->MapToPojo->close-all-the-things song and dance of JDBC

Are you going to the datomic workshop?

If one is held I will

I went to one in 2014 and fell in love with Datomic

it's so elegant... simple and powerful at the same time

I'm also keenly interested in onyx. If there are any sessions about it I'll definitely attend

my forte is data processing and all things back end

not much of a front end guy

@cezar: Stuart Halloway is running a 1 day Datomic workshop on Nov 29 right before the Conj, I've got my ticket already. Onyx looks really amazing, I hope one day I get a project that it would be suitable for - I don't do anything that needs it yet.

seems to be the case with a lot of business apps. On the first glance it looks like a perfect fit for Spark or Onyx and you take a second look and go "eh, I can still calculate it all in one JVM" and just do it the simple way. But I think as the data volumes grow and grow Onyx and its kin will become prevalent