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[sandGorgon]

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Good going @chaitanya - can you talk about the technology stack choices ? Clojure ?

Quick question - how does one migrate ? can you pull all data out of hipchat/slack ?

[chaitanya → sandGorgon]

Sorry no Lisp or Clojure here ;-)

Our backend is mostly Java, the desktop app is based on HTML/CSS/Javascript while the mobile apps are native.

We are working on a migration tool from Slack (and others) to Flock, we will release it soon.

[sandGorgon → chaitanya]

java 8 + lambda by any chance ? we have been considering kotlin + vertx for some time now... so it would be interesting to hear about your experience in the vanilla java world.

[chaitanya → sandGorgon]

Our core infra doesn't use lambda (we can't really, its not a good fit). However, I think for some of our ancillary services and especially for a lot of FlockOS apps (https://apps.flock.co), it makes a lot of sense.

Just yesterday in fact, I was at AWS dev day in Pune where I explained how easy it is to build a FlockOS app using lambda and node.js. We will put up a blog post on it soon.

[sandGorgon → chaitanya]

Actually I was not talking about AWS Lambda...but Java 8 "lambdas" (streams,lombok,lambdas...the whole shebang)

[chaitanya → sandGorgon]

Arghh.. yes of course we do make use of lambda expressions in Java!