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2015-11-01
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isaackarth17:11:32

It's not strictly Clojure related (though I've used Clojure in it before), but National Novel Generation Month 2015 just started: https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015

val_waeselynck22:11:55

not too optimistic, but... does anyone know a library equivalent to Prismatic's Schema in the JavaScript world?

cfleming22:11:05

I didn’t know this: > Amazon’s web services are now worth more than its entire retail operation – and growing three times as fast (from: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/01/how-amazon-took-control-of-the-cloud-john-naughton)

cfleming22:11:10

That’s amazing

alandipert23:11:51

@cfleming: a coworker of mine who went to re:invent recalled someone saying that amazon's computing resources are 10x that of all competitors, google, msft, etc combined

cfleming23:11:37

@alandipert: I’d love to know how they know that

alandipert23:11:01

i think it was a gartner stat

alandipert23:11:06

so, some kind of advanced hand-wavery

cfleming23:11:54

I actually like the look of lambda a lot - it has a lot of useful potential, for me at least.

cfleming23:11:37

Google Cloud doesn’t seem to offer anything comparable from what I can tell.

bhagany23:11:32

I was pretty skeptical of lambda at first, but somehow I keep on thinking of uses for it, and somewhere along the way I was sold on it.

cfleming23:11:57

@bhagany: Yeah, I have a ton of use cases that I’m way too lazy to set up and maintain a server for, but would be trivial with Lambda and DynamoDB

bhagany23:11:33

same, except s/lazy/lazy and cheap/ simple_smile

cfleming23:11:47

@bhagany: I saw you’re using the CLJS interface to it, right?

bhagany23:11:33

@cfleming: yes, I'm actually working on that project right now. It's very small (a site I make for my mother-in-law ~9 years ago), but it's been an enjoyable learning experience.

cfleming23:11:44

Nice, any gotchas to report?

bhagany23:11:35

@cfleming: no showstoppers so far! although my janky db will probably cause me headaches, but that's my own doing. It's basically last-write-wins, except applied to the whole (small) database.

cfleming23:11:50

Ok, are you using DynamoDB?

bhagany23:11:34

I'm not, I was already learning a pretty good amount, and didn't want to bite off more. it's a transit-serialized datascript db, written to s3 on every data-munging request.

bhagany23:11:48

but, it would be a stretch to call this a single user application

bhagany23:11:54

it's more like a .00001 user application

bhagany23:11:34

so I hope I'm safe

cfleming23:11:50

Great, thanks for the report - I’ll give it a go

bhagany23:11:15

cool, feel free to ping me about it, if you run into anything

cfleming23:11:22

Thanks, I will do