Chris Johnson Bidler

Centriq Technology
@hlprmnky

Chris Johnson Bidler is currently working as CTO of Centriq Technology, an early-stage startup that runs their entire business on Clojure and Datomic. He has two decades of development, operations, and architecture experience and has been working with Clojure in some capacity for almost half that time. In addition to his experience working at the REPL, Chris holds all three Associate-level AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer, and SysOps Administrator). When he’s not at the REPL, Chris enjoys making music, cooking for his family, and getting out into nature or exploring the city.

Serverless-ish: Zero to App with Datomic Cloud and GraphQL

The #serverless architecture pattern is taking the world by storm, and for good reasons. The principles of server less design allow for building robust and feature-filled prototypes quickly and cheaply, while also scaling readily when a prototype finds traction and gets big. Datomic Cloud and Ions allow the working Clojurist to enjoy many of the advantages of this architecture pattern without giving up the power and expressivity of either Clojure or Datomic. In this talk, I will demonstrate going from an empty buffer to a working distributed chat application with a GraphQL API serving Web and mobile clients, user authentication, and a BI dashboard in about 30 minutes, by leveraging the power of Datomic Cloud and the plethora of AWS services that support #serverless application.