My boomer uncle saved $1,200,000 for retirement.
- drove a 2003 Honda until it felt apart
- packed his lunch everyday for 33 years
- had a whole list of things he was going to do
He died 2 weeks before retiring
Interviewer: "Design a URL shortener."
Candidate designs URL shortener.
Interviewer: "But what about the analytics? And the rate limiting? And the geo-routing? And the custom domains? And the abuse detection? And the link expiration?"
Candidate: "You said URL shortener."
Interviewer: "I said URL shortener. I meant a distributed analytics platform with link management as a feature."
This is every system design interview. The question is the trailer. The actual movie is 6x bigger.
If you're not spending the first 5 minutes asking what the system actually needs to do, you're designing the trailer.
Why Clojure? You learn it once and you're not locked to one platform.
JVM, JavaScript, .NET, Dart, C++ (jank), Python (Basilisp), shell scripting (babashka) — same syntax, same semantics, mostly the same code.
That's the superpower. 👇 #Clojure