Here's Rich Hickey's explanation if it helps: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1i27n1k/rich_introduces_new_namespace_in_coreasync_flow/ https://www.red

Here's Rich Hickey's explanation if it helps: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1i27n1k/rich_introduces_new_namespace_in_coreasync_flow/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1i27n1k/rich_intro... His comment walks you through what it's for. The basics: configure your flow of data from producer to queue to consumer and so on as data, in one place.