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Interesting video and concepts with Datomic, but a few questions. * Why did Nubank decide to attack the Brazil market instead of US? There have been attempts h
by nodesocket 11y ago
Interesting video and concepts with Datomic, but a few questions.
* Why did Nubank decide to attack the Brazil market instead of US? There have been attempts here in the US; Simple (https://www.simple.com https://www.simple.com), Standard Treasury (http://standardtreasury.com/ http://standardtreasury.com/), Final (https://getfinal.com/ https://getfinal.com/), and Coin (https://onlycoin.com/ https://onlycoin.com/).
* Isn't reinventing the engineering wheel; in terms of Datomic and a not popular language like Clojure a potential huge distraction to the ultimate goal of building a bank? The problem space is big and hard enough without rolling/maintaining/testing your own database engine and obscure language framework.
- hcarvalhoalves 11y agoI'll try to address: * Perhaps surprising, but Brazil is an interesting market. We have a connected young generation and most industries' current players are bad. * I would argue it's about avoiding reinventing the wheel. Datomic gives you easy scale-out and auditing, and Clojure gives you a flexible, pragmatic functional language with good async/threading primitives running on stablished platforms (JVM and web browsers). I guess going off the beaten path is not necessarily more work if you're taking a shortcut.