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Re:Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what? on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:32PM (#14303563)
Using clojure to provide extinction risk assessments for Brazilian flora biodiversity, in a pipeline of data gathering, cleaning and geospatial analysis.

https://biodivdev.github.io

Also, on the Clojure website there are featured stories and a list of companies using it:

https://clojure.org/community/success_stories https://clojure.org/community/companies

Re:Ask HN: What's your container story? on Friday December 09, 2016 @05:09PM (#13142293)
Happy container user here. At previous company:

1. Using containers, close to 20 of them in production. Same for homolog, and a few at a time for dev;

2. Everything: Database (CouchDB+ES), Apps(in PHP, Ruby and Clojure) and auxiliary stuff(proxy, wiki, static server, mailer...);

3. Small: 2 techs, 1k users. Biodiversity conservation in the government;

4. No orchestrators. Using docker-compose only;

5. On boarding new members that are not experienced, sometimes takes a while for the abstraction to "kick in";