Datomic: Challenges and Benefits of an Immutable Database
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Datomic (an immutable database) is presented with its immutability model and how that model simplifies and strengthens system design. The talk describes Nubank’s five-year experience using Datomic in production, detailing concrete advantages and disadvantages observed in that deployment.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Datomic introduction
- 2:56Why choose Datomic
- 8:15Immutability in databases
- 13:19How Datomic stores data
- 20:52Transaction meta-information
- 25:06Database as value
- 33:06Architecture and scalability
- 37:49Datomic challenges
- 40:16Integration and ecosystem
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