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The Functional Database

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Summary

Rich Hickey discusses how a functional database can impact the programming model, using Datomic as an example, but the principles apply to other systems using an immutable database.

Bio

Rich Hickey, the author of the Clojure programming language and designer of the Datomic database system, is a software developer with over 25 years of experience in various domains. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening, in a variety of languages.

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Oct 11, 2013

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  • Live coding hard to see

    by Russell Leggett,

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    Always love a talk from Rich, but when it gets to the live coding portion, the video resolution of the coding is so low that I just gave up. I understand if you've got limitations in how it was captured or something, but if you could improve it, that would be most appreciated!

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  • Re: Live coding hard to see

    by Paul Dorman,

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    I concur! I'd love to see the hi-resolution video.

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  • Re: Live coding hard to see

    by Roxana Bacila,

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    Hi Russell,
    Thank you for your message. Actually deploying a solution for the live coding in videos was work in progress. This is now fixed.

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  • Re: Live coding hard to see

    by Roxana Bacila,

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    Hi Paul,
    the solution to see the high-res video for the live coding was deployed. The issue is now fixed.

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  • Pro's and Con's

    by Bob G,

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    When introducing new technologies like FDB, it is always fair to talk about the downside of it. What are the downside or side effect of using a Functionnal DB?

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  • Transcript of this talk is available

    by Andy Fingerhut,

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    A transcript of this talk is available here: github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/mast...

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