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Jun 8, 2023Liked by Kent Beck

That last phrase was good, left me wanting to read your next post 👍

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Mwahahaha 😹

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I'm very much looking forward to this series. I've been following the progress of XTDB, a relatively new, open source, bitemporal database for a while because we have some business problems at work -- online dating -- that would be easy to solve with it (but are hard with traditional databases). See https://www.xtdb.com/ for more details (their upcoming 2.0 release switches to a columnar architecture and provides a full SQL interface, in addition to Datalog).

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Practically, where is the "complexity budget" to be found? How do you create it, think about it? This fundamental gap between the phrase and practical use, makes the idea a non-starter.

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