Jepsen tests Datomic

https://blog.datomic.com/2024/05/Jepsen-tests-Datomic.html

Datomic is a general purpose database system designed for data-of-record applications. A Datomic database is a set of immutable atomic facts called datoms. Datomic transactions add datoms, never updating or removing them, so you have a complete...

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In software architecture you have to recognize when you're adding a rocket stage.

In rockets and aeroplanes it's a simple truth that weight adds more weight. To carry more you need bigger engines, a bigger fuel thank, more fuel. More weight becomes even more weight.

For rockets to make it out of the atmosphere they use multiple stages. Each stage carries the rocket to a certain height, once the fuel is used up the stage is ejected so the next stage can push forward a lighter rocket. So adding a stage will get you further, but at the cost of much more machinery, engineers, and complexity. You now have a much heavier rocket to launch.

Switching to kubernetes, kafka, microservices, a single page app, ... is adding a rocket stage. Maybe it's what you need to get where you want to go, but be clear about the extra weight, operational cost, engineering overheard, mental overhead.

Creating, yet not possessing.
Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten.
Therefore it lasts forever.

• Laozi, 6th century BCE, talking about open source

This is my Apple ad parody. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/apples-misstep/

Design is not recoverable from implementation

https://ericnormand.substack.com/p/design-is-not-recoverable-from-implementation

Continuous improvement is the only way

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“There is a very strong chance that you are also a contributor to the open source commons, and perhaps you’ve even contributed more to that commons than I have, contributed more to my own career success than I have to yours. I can ask you to pay me, but really you shouldn’t be paying me, your employer should.”

https://blog.glyph.im/2024/03/software-needs-to-be-more-expensive.html