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Smart people already have developed general solutions to this problem- This problem is the main reason "graph queries" were independently invented by both Faceb

by drcode 10y ago

Smart people already have developed general solutions to this problem- This problem is the main reason "graph queries" were independently invented by both Facebook and Netflix. See here for an exact solution to the problem posed in OP, using the OmNext graph query language: https://github.com/omcljs/om/wiki/Components,-Identity-&-Normalization https://github.com/omcljs/om/wiki/Components,-Identity-&-Nor...

carterehsmith 10y ago
"Smart people already have developed general solutions to this problem" Yes, they did, 50 years ago :) The article behind link refers to several-decades-old concepts of identity and normalization. That was not invented by Facebook or Netflix.