Category Archives: Clojure

Clojure’s Concurrency: easy atoms

by atc Posted on August 5, 2012

Clojure’s atoms let one transactionally and atomically store values. When one uses an atom, Clojure manages the mutation of the value and guarantees atomicity. Such a feature is very useful in a highly concurrent application. Much like Java’s Atomic* classes, … Continue reading →

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Clojure’s Concurrency: Futures and Agents in Harmony

by atc Posted on July 29, 2012

I’ve previously written on the wonders of Clojure’s agents, giving the programmer a wonderfully easy way of writing asynchronous code with very little effort. Here’s a slightly more complex example for those wanting more context. Combining Futures and Agents We’ll … Continue reading →

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00 (agent) – Clojure’s Concurrent Agents in action

by atc Posted on July 29, 2012

or Clojure’s concurrency agents – a simple example Clojure has some fantastic concurrency idioms. Agents are but one example of what’s available to the JVM lisper — alongside refs, atoms and vars — that make concurrent programming very easy. I … Continue reading →

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