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There's a few people asking about how to get something up quickly to play with - this was a problem for me, and it isn't really well explained, but for those in

There's a few people asking about how to get something up quickly to play with - this was a problem for me, and it isn't really well explained, but for those interested, Alexander Kiel's datomic free docker image has worked well for me - https://hub.docker.com/r/akiel/datomic-free/ https://hub.docker.com/r/akiel/datomic-free/ - and an example of it being used with docker compose is here: https://github.com/dazld/urlomic/blob/cc3d1218218b5f08751dfad41eabe68ceabeed7d/docker-compose.yml https://github.com/dazld/urlomic/blob/cc3d1218218b5f08751dfa... (on a wip branch for some playground thing). I'm far from a pro, but hope this helps someone interested in this tech.

stuarthalloway 9y ago
Datomic Cloud makes it much easier to get started on AWS. It takes only a few minutes to sign up, see https://www.datomic.com/videos.html https://www.datomic.com/videos.html for a walkthrough.
- danpeddle 9y ago
  For sure! looking forward to becoming a customer. I guess the journey I went through was missing some intermediate step between playing at the repl with an in memory db (which I believe you’ve mentioned before as being a good way to get hands dirty from zero), to having something in dev which was backed by storage, to a toy service, to production. Jumping into AWS, at least in my work environment, is a big jump requiring lots of supporting infrastructure etc. We’ll get there if it works out, but the dockerized setup is really helping in learning and evaluation. Officially supported ways of doing this is something i’m sure you’ve considered before, it would be nice if cognitect could reconsider this.
  - stuarthalloway 9y ago
    You don't have to be very far "in" AWS to try Cloud. The bastion server will let you connect from anywhere, so the idea is that the only infrastructure you need is a laptop and an internet connection. That said, we understand the value of a local development mode and that is possible in the future.

stuarthalloway 9y ago

Datomic Cloud makes it much easier to get started on AWS. It takes only a few minutes to sign up, see https://www.datomic.com/videos.html https://www.datomic.com/videos.html for a walkthrough.

danpeddle 9y ago
For sure! looking forward to becoming a customer. I guess the journey I went through was missing some intermediate step between playing at the repl with an in memory db (which I believe you’ve mentioned before as being a good way to get hands dirty from zero), to having something in dev which was backed by storage, to a toy service, to production. Jumping into AWS, at least in my work environment, is a big jump requiring lots of supporting infrastructure etc. We’ll get there if it works out, but the dockerized setup is really helping in learning and evaluation. Officially supported ways of doing this is something i’m sure you’ve considered before, it would be nice if cognitect could reconsider this.
- stuarthalloway 9y ago
  You don't have to be very far "in" AWS to try Cloud. The bastion server will let you connect from anywhere, so the idea is that the only infrastructure you need is a laptop and an internet connection. That said, we understand the value of a local development mode and that is possible in the future.