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New post: "Make Worse Software, Slower" This is not satire. I argue for: – Rejecting functional programming – Using ORMs to perfectly hide impedance mismatches – Skipping event sourcing – Other proven best practices Link in replies.

Here's the video of my keynote "Simple ideas with huge impact from Clojure and Rama" from reClojure two weeks ago. The ideas only take a few seconds to express, but they will seriously challenge how you perceive programming. youtube.com/watch?v=25lJNR…

Released Rama 1.1.0 today. The big new feature is "instant depot migrations", which enables Rama's depots (distributed logs) to be instantly migrated with an arbitrary transformation function. Migrations can also excise records in a fine-grained way. redplanetlabs.com/download

You can book a free 45 minute call with us to pair program or discuss how to apply Rama to your use cases at this Calendly link calendly.com/red-planet-lab…

The "Next-level backends with Rama" blog post series contains detailed tutorials using Rama to solve problems which would otherwise require many different databases and computation strategies blog.redplanetlabs.com/next-level-bac…

Very excited to publish this case study! What Rama did for this product is incredible: "How G+D Netcetera used Rama to 100x the performance of a product used by millions of people" Link to the full post in the replies.

New post: "Next-level backends with Rama: fault-tolerant timed notifications in 25 LOC". This is a detailed tutorial showing how to manage future work in an application. Examples on this site are features like scheduled posts or poll expirations. blog.redplanetlabs.com/2025/04/16/nex…

Rama is uniquely able to build an entire backend at scale with diverse computation and storage needs. Some have misunderstood this to mean using Rama means you need to replace all existing infrastructure. That would be crazy. Just because Rama can build everything does not mean…

New post: "Massively scalable collaborative text editor backend with Rama in 120 LOC" Link in replies.

Published "Next-level backends with Rama: storing and traversing graphs in 60 LOC". This is a detailed line by line tutorial on using Rama for both Clojure and Java. As with all Rama apps, the example in the post is scalable, fault-tolerant, and ACID compliant. Link in replies.

Also launched a major revamp for the @redplanetlabs website yesterday, with a lot more information on Rama and resources for learning redplanetlabs.com

Rama, the 100x developer platform, is now free for production use! You can download Rama from our website. The free version can run clusters up to two nodes, which is enough to comfortably run small/medium scale applications. Link to blog post with more info in replies.

It’s been a cool journey, thanks @nathan for all the support over the last year. You’ve built something very special with Rama. Love the name too.

With @nathanmarz's #Rama platform, you don't need a separate database, cache, queue or a data warehouse. It's kinda all built into Rama. It's a cohesive model incorporating all of these and some new capabilities that didn't exist before. #backend #distributed

Sign up to our mailing list to be notified as soon as we release the free version of Rama on March 18th redplanetlabs.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=68…

Thanks @redplanetlabs and @nathanmarz for enabling us to build internet-scale chat infrastructure in record time! The future is real-time chat at the scale and speed of the markets. Millions in a chat room watching the stock charts together. This is going to transform retail…

Published another Rama user case study: "How AfterHour built an ultra-scalable chat service in one month with Rama" Link in replies.

Published the first Rama user case study! "How Multiply went from Datomic to XTDB to Rama" Link in replies.

Rama will be free to use in three weeks on March 18th! Leading up to that, we'll be publishing our first two case studies detailing how Rama has dramatically improved the capability and development speed of our users.

We'll be releasing a free version of Rama soon that's suitable for production clusters. If you'd like early access, email [email protected]