Evan Phoenix on Mythryl: “The real problem was how to ship a database that users shouldn’t…”

The real problem was how to ship a database that users shouldn’t even know exists.

"Just use Postgres for everything" is great advice. We didn't take it. 😎 We're self-hosted, so every migration we ship, our users run across a whole fleet. Smeared SQL schemas? No thanks! Miren keeps its state as datoms on etcd. A new field? Just a new field. The story: miren.dev/blog/datoms-...

miren.devDatoms All the Way Down - MirenWhy Miren stores its state in an EAV entity system on etcd instead of a relational database.

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