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maybe by not building our own database seems a bit like engineering for the sake of engineering I'm all for it if it floats your boat, not sure that it's what
by anentropic 3y ago
maybe by not building our own database
seems a bit like engineering for the sake of engineering
I'm all for it if it floats your boat, not sure that it's what I want from my bank though
- n42 3y agowhere in the article does it say they built their own database?
- anentropic 3y agoit said they built a Datomic-like db on top of FoundationDB sounds pretty cool, but was it really necessary...?
- n42 3y agothat's just how FoundationDB is architected; it's not quite the same as building your own DB. the database provides primitives that are safe to build abstractions like this on top of. it's also not quite the same as using an off-the-shelf RDBMS, but they do a pretty good job of explaining why they made that design choice. if anything, viewed through that lens, I'd say it seems quite pragmatic.