The Maximal Graph - Wilker Silva

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edjroot · 2020-11 · Recommendation

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 - [VIDEO]

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ptttr · 2019-12 · Recommendation

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: [VIDEO]

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slifin · 2020-08 · Reference

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: - [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]

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