Success Stories

Walmart used Clojure to create a robust data management system that supports over 5,000 stores and integrates online and mobile data.

Learn how Walmart is running Clojure at Scale.

"Our Clojure system just handled its first Walmart black Friday and came out without a scratch." - via Twitter, 11/28/2014

Anthony Marcar Senior Architect

Chartbeat uses Kafka and Clojure to build a contextual site overlay which tracks internal traffic at a rate of over one million clicks per minute in real time.

Watch Devon discuss how they use Clojure to process a stream of activity of tens of millions of users.

When we needed to extract insights from hundreds of thousands of requests per second in realtime, we knew Clojure was the answer. Clojure is really awesome for general stream processing.

Devon Peticolas, Sr. Backend Engineer and Team Lead

8th Light worked with a new-to-Clojure client team to complete their first Clojure project in just a month, from design to deployment.

Read about why they consider Clojure a boring technology, and why that's a good thing.

Clojure's flexibility, interactive development, and tooling have helped us to iterate and continuously deliver a product our clients can be proud of.

Colin Jones CTO

Consumer Reports chose Clojure and Datomic to bring together all their underlying backend systems and databases. Their new enterprise-wide container service enables developers to create applications providing the data consumers are searching for quickly with decreased risk and effort.

Watch Paul deGrandis discuss Unlocking Data-driven Systems.

Cicayda used Clojure, Datomic, and ClojureScript to build a robust, multi-tenant cloud hosted SaaS that allows clients to manage diverse data and load profiles.

Learn how they used the familiar principles of Clojure to build this legal data service.

ClojureScript has provided us with a unified development environment on both sides of the wire and has helped us push toward a data-oriented UI.

Jonathan Boston Software Developer

Puppet use Clojure to build Trapperkeeper (and more), relying on Clojure's simplicity to build an agile, scalable platform.

Read about Trapperkeeper. Or Dig deeper. Or read about PuppetDB.

Clojure is a functional programming language from top to bottom. This means that code written in Clojure is very modular, composable, reusable and easy to reason about.

Chris Price Software Engineer

Beanstalk switches to Clojure to speed up caching by 20x.

Read about the love.

Yesterday we deployed to production a rewrite of Beanstalk’s caching system written in Clojure. It is 20 times faster than the previous version ... and allowed us to bring the latency between committing a change to a repo and seeing the update in Beanstalk’s UI to an average of 20 ms.

Dima Sabanin

MailOnline.com rebuilds publishing platform in Clojure.

Read about Clojure at a newspaper.

Yet fundamentally we hadn’t written much code. I raised this sheepishly with the CTO and his response was: “that’s how I know it’s the right solution”. Clojure is the winner here.

Jon Pither Co-founder, Juxt.pro

DRW Trading Group has adopted Clojure with great success.

Watch Jay discuss why DRW chose Clojure.

Clojure wasn’t the first language that I’ve introduced to an organization; however, it’s unquestionably the most successful adoption I’ve ever been a part of. The use of Clojure has had many impacts on the firm: culturally, politically, and technically.

Jay Fields Software Engineer

IOOF worked with Thoughtworks to quickly replace and improve a critical component of their financial services platform.

Read about recreating their superannuation services.

The project was a discrete module and allowed us to build it as a service which fits with our architecture goals. Importantly it required integration with our core administration system and that posed no challenge. Clojure allowed us to quickly and easily implement all the changes required to bring this custody function back in-house.

Andrew Todd CIO

Thoughtworks leverages Clojure to accelerate a Java team.

Read about using Clojure to deliver early and under budget.

We discussed the existing Clojure community, the maturity of the language itself and the momentum we saw in the industry. Companies are seeing speed to market deliveries, that are based on Clojure.

Dave Eilman

The Climate Corporation uses Clojure to help the world’s farmers sustainably protect and care for their crops.

Read about how they used Clojure to build a versioned weather datastore.

All our models, datastores, and services are built in Clojure. We find that Clojure’s support for parallelism makes it easy to run complex models with low latency.

Leon Barrett Software Engineer

Precursor is real-time collaborative prototyping for teams built with Clojure, ClojureScript, and Datomic.

Read about how Precursor uses ClojureScript to make designers productive.

Learning to use ClojureScript, Om, and React finally made me feel like I was taking ownership of my design work from beginning to end.

Danny King Co-Founder/Designer

Sonian has been using Clojure in production at a large scale to develop a common foundation for back-end services.

Read about how Sonian stays SAFE.

Clojure gives us a performance boost at both ends of the software development lifecycle: we can build new features as quick as any Python or Ruby shop, and when we ship it to production it runs as fast as any Java application.

Ron Toland Clojure Engineer

Appsflyer develops in Clojure for scalability and for the business agility it enables. They can grow and adapt as fast as the mobile advertising market.

For more about Appsflyer, visit their website. And check out their blog post about using Clojure in end-to-end production.

When we transitioned from millions of daily events to billions, we knew that Clojure was the answer.

Reshef Mann CTO

Atlassian is using Clojure to build realtime collaboration features into both new and existing products.

Leonardo Borges explains why Atlassian chose Clojure and the exciting results the team has achieved in his recent presentation at EuroClojure 2015.

Base2 used Clojure to develop a feature-rich onboard diagnostic system for the Boeing 737 MAX. They structured the application with a service framework and message queues to enable communication between disparate parts of the service while preserving separation of concerns.

Watch Donevan discuss the development of this onboard application in this Clojure/west 2016 presentation.

We picked Clojure for this project due to its ability to run parallel processes well, the strength of the available libraries, and because Clojure, which is a Boeing approved language, uses the JVM.

Donevan Dolby Software Engineer

Room Key works with Cognitect and leverages Clojure and Datomic to build a rapidly scalable, highly agile cloud-based hotel search engine.

Read about 60,000% growth using Clojure and AWS. Or a case study about our collaboration. Or about how they use Datomic.

[We] knew Cognitect would provide the kind of support we needed. They have been our partner in every sense of the word. They resolved most of the few problems we encountered before I got to them.

Colin Steele CTO

Greenius chose Clojure and Datomic to build a scalable, agile platform for gardeners to collaborate and share ideas.

Learn about their ClojureScript integration roadmap.

[We designed our software] with just immutable data structures and pure functions (with much less code than traditional OO languages) allowing us to focus on our core business requirements rather than inherent technological problems.

Asier Galdos Co-founder/developer

Funding Circle uses Clojure to write their exchange and accounting systems.

Learn about how they use Clojure for perfomance sensitive back-end services.

Clojure is remarkably malleable. We write stream processors, API servers, and web applications in Clojure and it's a natural fit. We can focus on our data and solving problems unique to our business.

Rob Crim Chief Architect

Kidblog uses Clojure to provide safe student publishing for K-12 teachers and students.

Learn about how they use Clojure in their platform.

Clojure makes our code more enjoyable to write, pleasant to read, and easier to review.

Matt Hardy Founder

LendUp uses Clojure to build enterprise financial software that helps provide anyone with a path to better financial health.

LendUp uses Clojure to power data pipelines and core real-time decisioning & servicing infrastructure.

Clojure is elegant and pragmatic; it helps me focus more on solving business problems.

Mengxi Lu Data Engineering Lead

Zimpler, being a payment company, strives to deliver a smooth payment experience. For achieving this we use ClojureScript in all our user facing applications.

Watch as Zimplers CTO tells the tale about ClojureScript in production at a payment company.

Working with Clojure and ClojureScript has allowed us to collaborate more easily and iterate faster.

Jean-Louis Giordano CTO

CloudRepo is a cloud based repository manager for storing and sharing your software libraries (Leiningen, Boot, Maven, etc).

CloudRepo's founder discusses the choice to use a Clojure stack.

Simplified development, building a complete product with a very small team, and zero customer impacting outages. That's just in our first year of working with Clojure!

Chris Shellenbarger Founder, CloudRepo

AnyChart chose Clojure and ClojureScript to power their JavaScript (HTML5) charting libraries’ technical documentation ecosystem: user’s guide, API reference, and chart playground.

Read about how how the AnyChart team uses Clojure and why.

We love Clojure for the ability to use Java libraries, writing shared code for the backend and the frontend, and for the inherent boost to the speed of development it provides.

Vitaly Radionov Head of R&D, AnyChart

At GO-JEK, we rewrote our Allocation Engine in Clojure which enabled us to serve millions of customers to find a suitable driver for them.

Watch Abhinav and Kartik discuss at EuroClojure 2017.

We were looking for a language which allows us to express our domain beautifully at the heart of our matchmaking system. Clojure was a way to go which allowed us to write high-level abstraction for matching drivers and customers.

Shobhit Srivastava Head of Technology

Pisano's empowering & innovative customer experience platform uses Clojure, ClojureScript and Datomic.

Read why Pisano is so happy with using the Clojure platform.

Modelling our system state with data structure was a gratifying experience which seems organic, as it should be.

Ertuğrul Çetin Software Engineer & Team Lead

Freshcode provides Web solutions using Clojure as a core technology.

Read about why our developers choose Clojure and when Clojure development matters.

Why Clojure? Because: live reload, extreme development speed, metaprogramming, macros, DSL, map/filter/reduce

Artem Barmin Co-Founder at Freshcode

The French digital administration provides digital infrastructure and resources for the ministries and public agencies.

Etalab, the department responsible for open data in France, is using Clojure to publish the list of public source codes.

Clojure was used to develop a modest web site, and we appreciate how it allows us to quickly react to feature requests.

Bastien Guerry Free Software Officer at the French digital administration