Datomic: Immutable database for new web architecture S03E08

Datomic is an immutable database that borrows ideas from functional programming. We discuss how an immutable database changes the architectural possibilities of web apps. Links/Resources: - [Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYfcyvSpEQ) - [Database as Values with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DKjEbdYos) - [Intro To Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcqYZZ9RDY) - [KotlinConf 2018 - Datomic: The Most Innovative DB You've Never Heard Of by August Lilleaas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicQvxdKvnc) - [Love Letter To Clojure: And A Datomic Experience Report - Gene Kim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbp3SEha38) - [Turning the database inside out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0) - [Datomic - a scalable, immutable database system by Marek Lipert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGrCsIiiTUs) - ["Real-World Datomic: An Experience Report" by Craig Andera (2013)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeFdAXZz30) - [https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/) - [https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/) - [https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/) - [Talking about Datomic, Datalog, GraphQL, APIs](https://www.notion.so/Datomic-52000e1e65d345509cbcde4681d5522f) - [What Datomic does to REST](https://web.archive.org/web/20210421110723/http://dustingetzcom.hyperfiddle.com/:what-datomic-does-to-rest/) - [Unofficial guide to Datomic Internals](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/) - [Datomic Documentation Overview](https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/overview/overview.html) - [The web after tomorrow](https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/) - [APIs are about policy](https://acko.net/blog/apis-are-about-policy/) Chapters: 0:00 Intros [00:02:21] What is Datomic? [00:05:01] The Immutable Database [00:14:59] The N+1 Problem [00:20:59] Inference and Logical Programming [00:26:45] Database in the browser [00:39:24] Reducing the Impedence Mismatch [00:42:09] The Change in Perspective [00:51:14] Data as Social Artifact ===== About “The Technium” ===== The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more! ===== Socials ===== WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545