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• Clojars is now officially a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy
• “In this day and age of raging debates about type systems, … it’s refreshing to hear Sam prioritise the lowering of cognitive load”
• “We’re reassured when we see lots of recent change, lots of contributors, and lots of new stuff appearing. In reality I think that’s almost exactly the opposite of what should reassure us. With change comes risk.”
• A Majestic Monolith in Clojure
• Dragan Djuric has slides up for his talk on Clojure on the GPU

Libraries & Books.

• Transforming Data with ClojureScript is a new interactive beginners book on ClojureScript and Functional Programming
• core.async 0.3.441, and 0.3.426 are out with some fixes for handling exceptions in go blocks

People are worried about Types. ?

• Soft failures with Spec

Foundations.

• Non Volatile Memory (NVM) bridges the gap between the throughput and latency of flash, and the durability and capacity of flash. This changes a lot of the assumptions and constraints in storage systems and databases. This article on Write Behind Logging shows how taking advantage of NVM’s unique properties sped up throughput by 1.2x-1.3x, and failure recovery time by 100x. The paper was co-authored by Andy Pavlo who showed up here a few weeks ago with his talk about Peloton.
• Eric Normand has written a bunch of articles this week about the JVM and Clojure
• The Future of Java in the Enterprise (including InfoQ’s thoughts on Clojure adoption)

Tools.

• Howard Lewis Ship has released vizdeps, a lein plugin to visualise your dependency tree
• JetBrains 2016 in Review

Recent Developments.

• A mailing list thread on contributing Specter to Clojure core

Learning.

• A deep dive into Clojure’s next and rest functions

Misc.

• If you also enjoy mainlining Bryan Cantrill, BSDNow has released The Cantrillogy, three back to back Bryan Cantrill interviews.