Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points people to it as the clearest account of why Datomic is designed the way it is and of the problems with conventional database architecture.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

InfoQ

Topic

database architecture

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Rich Hickey's talk on the design of Datomic is also something every programmer should see at least once: [VIDEO]

• We recently started using Solr in a similar manner where I work. We don't go as far as to pack an index in with our code, but each page serving instance has an embedded Solr server that it uses to pull a lot of fairly …

• Although tangential to your question, I feel you might enjoy presentations by Rich Hickey wherein he describes traditional database architectures and presents the whys and wherefores behind Datomic. For example: [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]