Rich Hickey has great track record of being spot on. He seems to know exactly where the pain points of software engineering are, and proposes sound solutions.

Rich Hickey has great track record of being spot on. He seems to know exactly where the pain points of software engineering are, and proposes sound solutions. In this talk he explains how Datomic works, but more importantly, what the reasoning behind it is: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-datomic-cap http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-datomic-cap Everybody should watch this, as the concepts behind it apply to any system.