A pharmacy system that uses a functional database (Datomic)
Well obviously we want all of the things mentioned here
We're also doing this as part of a proof of concept that could very well ring in a new era of technologies at H-E-B.
No longer will I sit by and watch good developers struggle with "traditional" databases that were developed when dedicated, expensive boxes were necessary and memory and storage was expensive.
So functional-pharmacy is an exploration of what it's like not to have these constraints.
We're going to assume that:
- we have gigabytes of RAM
- our network bandwith and speed matches or exceeds hard disk access
- we can spin up and kill servers on a whim
See issue list for milestones
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