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Datomic is Free 3 years ago

I've been told by the Datomic team only on-prem is used within Nubank. Could be wrong tho

Datomic is Free 3 years ago

sharding, microservices, they run many instances of Datomic to handle different functionality

I'm just remembering the sad collapse of RethinkDB...

The task of making a viable commercial database in 2020 is herculean and I can really empathize with the team's need to both keep cashflow and have a sufficiently sized deployment to debug against.

Can also say that everyone I've met at nubank are really passionate about the ecosystem and seem like they'll be excellent partners

Out team chose Datomic for it's graph like properties and emphasis on data locality. This is optimal for GraphQL style patterns where you'd otherwise join a million tables

Next.js 2.0 9 years ago

You can use Next.js to do server-side only rendering. It uses React idioms for rendering in favor of vanilla templating

Lets think about this from the opposite direction: Which projects on the web are the MOST successful? Facebook? Twitter? Gmail? Github?

Do ANY of those giants use big, all-encompassing super libraries? NOPE