ClojureTV
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39:15 · 7.5K views · Nov 22, 2019
A Clojure/conj 2019 talk by Wilker Silva on how namespace-qualified keywords and context-free federated names can be used pragmatically for data modeling, drawn from his experience at Nubank. It builds toward a graph-based view of connecting data from many sources.
Cited as a demonstration of the Pathom/graph approach to connecting APIs, as an alternative to GraphQL.
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The original question made this mistake probably because the poster didn't know it but Pathom is the actual alternative to GraphQL-based APIs. Datalog solves a subtly different problem of querying the data, while Pathom/GraphQL/REST is about exposing the data (interfacing?) as API. It's more like: Pathom vs GraphQL-based API (vs REST) and Datalog vs SQL (vs NoSQL) The mainstream is in the process of migrating from REST to GraphQL, but I think Pathom could be the black horse in this race. Just watch the last part of Wilker Silva's The Maximal Graph talk to see the potential: this video
Looks pretty cool. Have you looked into Pathom (a Clojure library)? Its creator seems to share your vision of connecting APIs from different sources. Last 5 minutes of this video: The Maximal Graph by Wilker Silva - this video
Rails were successful in the 2005-2015 era of server-rendered HTML but today MVC + REST API might not be enough anymore for solo founders to compete in multi-platform, client-rich reality. After spending of +4 years working professionally with Ruby on Rails I've grown aware of its limitations. I've spent a long time searching for its successor in my programmer's toolbelt. I've waded through numerous Javascript frameworks yet every one of them proved to disappoint me after taking it for a spin. I've finally arrived at Clojure at the beginning of 2019 and it has been really refreshing. I love how well designed the language is, how mature the community is and I am amazed by the quality of the ecosystem. You can see my repo-graveyard made along that journey here: [LINK] My personal bet for the next killer-app in web development is: Clojure[0] + Fulcro[1] + Pathom [2] + Crux [3]. [0] Love Letter To Clojure - Gene Kim (Clojure/conj 2019) [LINK] [1] Fulcro links and resources: [LINK] [2] The Maximal Graph - Wilker Silva (Clojure/conj 2019) this video [3] [LINK]
I think what most people don't see coming is that Wilker Lúcio was hired by Roam Research he is the author of Pathom and gave this talk recently: - this video It's about connecting many graphs together, the killer app in this space is to figure out how to connect these graphs together such that teams and communities can grow connections on a massive scale There will be many challenges in doing that particularly around selection, per edge permissions likely leveraging Clojure's namespaced keywords to get global attributes This will mean a major re architecture of Roam Research, I predict most Roam clones are going to get absolutely blindsided by this Roam today is ~just~ a datascript database on the client being kept up to date with firebase For now if you want open source Roam keep an eye on [LINK]