The Maximal Graph - Wilker Silva
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a demonstration of the Pathom/graph approach to connecting APIs, as an alternative to GraphQL.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2019 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends ptttr · 2019-12 · on “Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?”
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]
Recommends edjroot · 2020-11 · on “Programs are a prison: Rethinking the building blocks of computing interfaces”
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]
Cites ptttr · 2019-11 · on “Why Build Solutions with Fulcro – Tom Toor (Clojure/Conj 2019)”
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 e
Cites slifin · 2020-08 · on “Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base”
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