In this talk, from Datomic, gives an introductory talk on Datomic as a functional database. He talks on a Datomic as value Database, which means that you can write functions that take values as arguments and similarly can return a database value as its result. He also talks on the importance of a durable, consistent Database that can be shared across processes. Rich also offers some hands on use from Clojure. This talk was recorded at the LispNYC meetup at Meetup HQ.
Bio: Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure and designer of Datomic, is a software developer with over 20 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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