Datomic: Immutable database for new web architecture S03E08

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Datomic is an immutable database that borrows ideas from functional programming. We discuss how an immutable database changes the architectural possibilities of web apps.

Links/Resources:
- [Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYfcyvSpEQ)
- [Database as Values with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DKjEbdYos)
- [Intro To Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcqYZZ9RDY)
- [KotlinConf 2018 - Datomic: The Most Innovative DB You've Never Heard Of by August Lilleaas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicQvxdKvnc)
- [Love Letter To Clojure: And A Datomic Experience Report - Gene Kim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbp3SEha38) - [Turning the database inside out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0)
- [Datomic - a scalable, immutable database system by Marek Lipert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGrCsIiiTUs)
- ["Real-World Datomic: An Experience Report" by Craig Andera (2013)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeFdAXZz30)
- [https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/)
- [https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/)
- [https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/)
- [Talking about Datomic, Datalog, GraphQL, APIs](https://www.notion.so/Datomic-52000e1e65d345509cbcde4681d5522f)
- [What Datomic does to REST](https://web.archive.org/web/20210421110723/http://dustingetzcom.hyperfiddle.com/:what-datomic-does-to-rest/) - [Unofficial guide to Datomic Internals](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/)
- [Datomic Documentation Overview](https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/overview/overview.html)
- [The web after tomorrow](https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/)
- [APIs are about policy](https://acko.net/blog/apis-are-about-policy/)

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
[00:02:21] What is Datomic?
[00:05:01] The Immutable Database
[00:14:59] The N+1 Problem
[00:20:59] Inference and Logical Programming
[00:26:45] Database in the browser
[00:39:24] Reducing the Impedence Mismatch
[00:42:09] The Change in Perspective
[00:51:14] Data as Social Artifact

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