Chapter 12: Best Practices for Enterprise Development

In this section

• 12.1 Code Organization and Style Guidelines
  • Clojure Naming Conventions for Enterprise Integration
    Explore best practices for naming conventions in Clojure, focusing on consistency, function and variable names, namespace organization, and strategies to avoid naming collisions.
  • Clojure Namespace Management: Best Practices and Techniques
    Explore the intricacies of namespace management in Clojure, including importing Java classes, aliasing, selective referencing, and best practices for clean and efficient code organization.
• 12.2 Error Handling and Exception Management
  • Leveraging `ex-info` and `ex-data` in Clojure for Enhanced Error Handling
    Explore how to effectively use `ex-info` and `ex-data` in Clojure for creating detailed exceptions, attaching contextual information, and handling errors gracefully in enterprise applications.
  • Graceful Degradation in Clojure Enterprise Systems
    Explore strategies for implementing graceful degradation in Clojure-based enterprise systems, including failover strategies, user feedback, error logging, and maintaining service availability.
• 12.3 Security Considerations
  • Input Validation and Sanitization in Clojure: Ensuring Robust and Secure Applications
    Explore input validation and sanitization techniques in Clojure using clojure.spec and plumatic/schema to build secure enterprise applications.
  • Secure Configuration Management in Clojure: Best Practices and Tools
    Explore secure configuration management in Clojure, focusing on external configurations, secret management, data encryption, and access control for enterprise applications.
• 12.4 Deployment Environments and Practices
  • Docker Containerization for Clojure Applications: A Comprehensive Guide
    Explore the intricacies of Docker containerization for Clojure applications, from creating Docker images to managing dependencies and running containers efficiently.
  • Kubernetes Orchestration for Clojure Applications
    Explore the orchestration of Clojure applications using Kubernetes, covering deployment, configuration management, scaling, and monitoring.
• 12.5 Maintaining and Scaling Applications
  • Monitoring and Metrics Collection for Enterprise Clojure Applications
    Explore comprehensive strategies for monitoring and metrics collection in Clojure applications, including instrumentation, log aggregation, alerting, and performance dashboards.
  • Scaling Strategies for Enterprise Applications: Vertical and Horizontal
    Explore vertical and horizontal scaling strategies for enterprise applications, focusing on Clojure frameworks and libraries, including stateless service design and session management.