Google Assistant meets Ktor
Implementing an Assistant webhook endpoint with Ktor For the longest time I had wanted to experiment with backend services, but coming from the mobile world of Android it always felt a…
Clojure third language officially supported on Heroku
According to this blog entry on Heroku, Clojure becomes the third language officially supported on the Cedar stack, after Ruby and Node.js. They write: - "Clojure combines the expressiveness of…
Deploying a Clojure web app on Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform for Ruby/Rails and Node.js. However, the Cedar stack on Heroku makes it possible to deploy other types of applications. In this blog entry, I will first describe how to write a simple Clojure web app using the Ring library and the build tool Leiningen. Then I will show how to deploy this Clojure web app on Heroku, using nothing but Git. I will make a change and see how to deploy that. I will also show how to easily roll back to a previous release.