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[softwaredoug]

I can imagine this being really useful from the ground up. Because it looks like it wants to be the source of truth, with different views on the data.

It’s hard to imagine it for a complex legacy application without having lots of added complexity. It wants to be the unifying programming model for the application. It would seem like running with two RDMS sources of truth simultaneously.

It’s like the xkcd “there are 12 ways of doing X, let’s create a standard to unify them” now there are 13 ways

[fragmede → softwaredoug]

That's xkcd 927.

9, which is 3^2, and 27, which is 3^3. Or 900 is Yoda's age, and 27 which is the 27 club of musicians who committed suicide.

[mkl → fragmede]

Most members of the 27 Club didn't die by suicide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

[russelg → mkl]

True, but perhaps you could call drug overdosing suicide.