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Datomic is Free

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1,099 points·by xmlblog·3 lata temu·368 comments

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xmlblog
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
This. Maybe there's a market opportunity for people who want to be treated like cattle, but even Spirit couldn't find it.
xmlblog
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
The comments are pretty convincing evidence that most people see only everyone else's complexity while slowly boiling in their own.
xmlblog
·3 lata temu·discuss
> "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale". Doesn't production use of Datomic by Nubank and Netflix (to mention just two examples) belie this assertion?
xmlblog
·3 lata temu·discuss
> If you have 10s or 100s of app servers that has the exact same working set in memory, it's probably not worth it.

The introduction of intelligent application-level partitioning [1] and routing schemes can help one balance cost and performance.

[1] https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/implicit-partitions.html
xmlblog
·3 lata temu·discuss
Having the working set present on app servers means they don't put load on a precious centralized resource which becomes a bottleneck for reads. The peer model allows app servers to service reads directly, avoiding the cost of contention and an additional network hop, allowing for massive read scale.
xmlblog
·3 lata temu·discuss
Newer releases have improved significantly in this area. It's now possible to understand perf implications with the addition of io-stats[1] and query-stats[2].

[1] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/api/io-stats.html [2] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/api/query-stats.html
xmlblog
·3 lata temu·discuss
Free beer binaries are not mutually exclusive of Enterprise support agreements featuring all those things you mentioned above _for people that need that_.
xmlblog
·3 lata temu·discuss
Netflix, Facebook (Meta), Nubank, and many others.
xmlblog
·3 lata temu·discuss
Attending https://2023.clojure-conj.org/schedule/
xmlblog
·4 lata temu·discuss
I mean... 1. https://clojure.org/news/news 2. https://ask.clojure.org/ 3. https://groups.google.com/g/clojure 4. http://planet.clojure.in/ 5. https://twitter.com/i/communities/1494013093059432451 ...make it seem as though reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.