http://youtu.be/HGH66JhUkis?t=8m59s
The old system was 155,000 lines of Java and similar. The team before him tried to rebuild using J2EE and XSLT and failed to get anything working in 8 months of trying. They then reorganised and rebuilt the system in about 4000 lines of Clojure:
http://youtu.be/HGH66JhUkis?t=16m3s
http://youtu.be/HGH66JhUkis?t=8m59s
The old system was 155,000 lines of Java and similar. The team before him tried to rebuild using J2EE and XSLT and failed to get anything working in 8 months of trying. They then reorganised and rebuilt the system in about 4000 lines of Clojure:
http://youtu.be/HGH66JhUkis?t=16m3s