"Clojure in the Fintech Ecosystem" by Philip Cooper

Discover how Clojure's unique features, such as immutability and concurrency, make it a robust fit for the fintech ecosystem, and learn about the libraries and solutions developed to manage complex financial data.

Key takeaways
  • Clojure’s strengths in finance are its immutability, concurrency, and functional programming features.
  • The financial industry is notorious for being dirty and noisy, making it a good fit for Clojure’s robustness.
  • Clojure’sepoch and unreliable, but it’s a great problem for Clojure’s maturity.
  • Library to manage funding is challenging due to the complexity and provided a solution in Clojure.
  • Some libraries like: Tablecloth, TechML, Dataset and Datomic.
  • Python libraries like Pandas is also used for financial data, but Clojure is a better fit for immunization and concurrency.
  • A large bank’s closure presentation was impressive and surprisingly with such ease.
  • Experience with Clojure shows that it leaves a good impression on new and existing developers.
  • Financial data is complex and have to navigate and structure it correctly.