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> You write the same plumbing for route params, request parsing, validation, and responses in handler after handler. None of it is hard. Enough of it becomes noise. As a human, I w…

Cool stuff as usual, Anders. One of the nice things about running a networked DB is that it makes redeploying the application a bit simpler. You can spin up a new EC2 instance or w…

I recently used c.a.flow for a program that reads files from s3, massages the data a bit, and writes to a database. The code came out very easy to understand. The challenges were: …

It's always frustrating to me that the order matters at all. I understand SQL can be complex to parse, but surely we are smart enough to come up with a parser that doesn't care whe…

The band Protest the Hero has a song about this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNcGbAQgZIg

This post could be summarized as "write as much of your project's tooling as you can in the project's main programming language and the project's main programming language should b…

Long ago, when Datomic was only recently released, I saw blog posts (not from Cognitect) claiming that Datomic's transaction log could be used to create a subscription system for a…

I've been guilty of this. Normally I like to blame CSS for all of my personal failures, but I think the definition of "overflow" is intuitive enough. I was hesitant to turn on visi…

Fair enough, hitting that bug would have pissed me off too. On your last point, I agree that it still has a way to go. It's good for some (many?) production use cases now, as Nuban…

This seems like an excessively uncharitable read of the situation. I've never used Nubank's software, but I have used (on-prem) Datomic and I certainly wouldn't say it has bugs eve…

It sounds like Nubank might have the biggest Datomic installation in the world (2000 servers). This is exciting news for people like me who think Datomic is the most interesting da…

A Picardy third can be heard at the end of Avengers Infinity War as Thanos watches the sun rise on a grateful universe.

Everything Distributed Masonry does is very interesting. Wish I had more excuses to use your stuff at work. Storing all data forever in a single source of truth is awesome until re…