Bottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure - Mark Bastian

Why HN readers recommended it

HN repeatedly recommends it as the talk that made data-oriented, REPL-driven bottom-up design click.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

ClojureTV

Topic

bottom-up software design

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I personally prefer a more data-oriented approach to modeling, as opposed to modeling in terms of objects and relations. One of my favorite videos from Clojure Conj last year talks about the approach in more detail and contrasts it with traditional OO modeling in the …

• This is exactly my impression after taking a quick glance through these articles as well. If anyone is curious and would like to see a practical demonstration of this data-oriented approach of modelling problems, I highly recommend this talk from Mark Bastian in Clojure/conj 2015: …

• I picked on needless complexity due to top-down design not on static typing per se. Here's a good video highlighting the difference of approach. Well worth watching. Applies to how many Java architects would design a solution. I see the same kind of top-down approach …