Aero is a small configuration library from JUXT that extends Clojure's EDN reader with support for tags to interpolate values from environment variables, coerce these values to a specific type, use simple conditionals, and several other useful features.
One of the user stories I had to tackle in a recent sprint was to import data maintained by a non-technical colleague in a Google Spreadsheet into our analytics database.
One of our new starters here at Metail was keen to brush up his statistics, and it's more than 20 years since I completed an introductory course at university so I knew I would benefit from some revision.
In an earlier article on optimization, we evaluated all the different ways of splitting 13 items into sets of 5+4+4 and, applying a cost function to each partition, found one that minimised the total cost.