Is core.async a replacement to Lamina or does it intend to become a replacement for Lamina? If not, are there clear situations where one is preferable over the other?

I am designing a prototype realtime monitor for processing fairly large amounts (>30G/day) of streaming numeric data. I would like to write this in Clojure, as the language seems to be well suited ...

At the moment I'm trying to construct a web service with a RESTful API that handles some long running tasks (jobs). The idea is that a user submits a job by doing a POST which returns some URL fo...