fbernier

Shopify is a Canadian company based in Ottawa.

Nice write up. I am recommending https://github.com/wg/wrk instead of ab if you ever have to run those kind of benchmarks again.

Everyone is answering your question mentioning the Clojure STM, but I'd point out the nowadays most concurrency problems in Clojure can be, and are solved without touching the STM. Immutable and persistent collections, atoms, agents and more can all be used outside the STM and produce the right results.