https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/flock-safety

The venture capitalist world is full of people who will deliberately ruin a company based on the extremely unlikely but possible scenario where the companies goes to the moon in value. I think there's pretty much 100% certainty that multiple venture capitalists are going to try exactly what you're suggesting on the off chance that it makes them the new world controller.

So the tradeoff this database makes is it doesn't work at high scale, but it has a lot of features not typically in a database, such as:

- The ability to embed non-turing-complete event source handlers in the database schema

- Categorical type system that makes migrations provably secure

- All schema changes take place through migrations

Example syntax:

  Inventory = aggregate(key = sku) {
      sku:       String
      name:      String
      available: crdt(merge = counter) I64

      command Stock(sku: String, name: String, qty: U64) {
          sku       = input.sku
          name      = input.name
          available += input.qty
      }

      command Reserve(sku: String, qty: U64) {
          available -= input.qty
      }

      command Release(sku: String, qty: U64) {
          available += input.qty
      }
  }

  command SubmitOrder(order_id: String, party_id: String, sku: String, qty: U64, total: U64) {
      Order::PlaceOrder(
          id       = input.order_id
          party_id = input.party_id
          sku      = input.sku
          qty      = input.qty
          total    = input.total
      ) compensate Order::Cancel()
      # `sku` is Inventory's key — the step must bind it so the engine can
      # resolve which Inventory row the command targets (task-212).
      Inventory::Reserve(sku = input.sku, qty = input.qty)
          compensate Inventory::Release(sku = input.sku, qty = input.qty)
  }

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169829

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https://xcancel.com/Truthtellerftm/status/197901264211193488...

This influencer nonsense described here is gross and fake compared to that. What would a genuine, face-to-face advertising campaign look like nowadays?

> The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast

> The slow one now will later be fast

> *As the present now will later be past*

> The order is rapidly fadin'

> And the first one now will later be last

> For the times, they are a-changin'

We're seeing this now. Times are a-changin' indeed.