Anthony Marcar - Clojure At Scale @WalmartLabs

ClojureTV

Why leaders watch it

Lessons from growing a team and codebase on a less common language at a large company, including hiring trade-offs.

Anthony Marcar describes lessons from three years of using Clojure at WalmartLabs, including scaling a team and a large multi-project codebase in an enterprise setting.

Takeaways

• Niche technology affects hiring and onboarding
• Scaling a team needs shared conventions
• Pick tools with the team in mind

Topics: Engineering & technical leadership, Org design & scaling

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