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That's a fairly traditional no-DB approach [1], but what's the reason to believe the dominance of that approach is on the horizon? [1] Common Lisp has a partic
by _delirium 12y ago
That's a fairly traditional no-DB approach [1], but what's the reason to believe the dominance of that approach is on the horizon?
[1] Common Lisp has a particularly nice system for doing it transparently, http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/ http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/, and I believe HN is implemented using a DB-via-serialization strategy as well
- mantrax5 12y agoActor systems. Actor systems allow this to scale and cross the machine boundary without having some dedicated database product doing it for us. I've noticed that the more I work with actor systems (each actor is stateful and keeps its own state), the less I use databases. In fact, the idea of keep state separate from the code reading it and changing it begins to look oddly broken as a concept.