End of an era for sure. But then there is this I guess: Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxexwz/something-in-deep-...

I think Datomic which has been doing time series data for years now answers the "what’s the big deal" question for me:

"Given a value of the database, one can obtain another value of the database as-of, or since, a point in time in the past, or both (creating a windowed view of activity). These database values can be queried ordinarily, without having to make special queries parameterized by time." http://www.datomic.com/rationale.html

So in other words you get to see exactly how the whole database looked at any given moment through history (certain parallels with the blockchain I suppose).

Until you reach 10B datoms and then you're off for a fun ride sharding with multiple databases. Also in an IoT context or more general timeseries usage you very likely don't care about tx, but very much do about write throughput and not having a spof, which Datomic isn't good at at all.

Datomic is an ok choice in some contexts, but the one detailed here is not one of them, you're likely to reach Datomic limits quickly and be in a world of hurt when you do.

> I think Datomic which has been doing time series data for years now answers the "what’s the big deal" question for me:

This is known as "time travel queries". Postgres supported this back in the original version from the 1980s but then they took it out in 1997 because it takes up too much disk space.

It's trivial to do in an MVCC system. You just turn off garbage collection (vacuuming in PSQL parlance).

Wonderful. That's really great news!

Now if there was any way you guys could start offering your Marketplace platform outside the US (UK specifically) I'll be all over that like a cheap suit! ;-)

I salute you!

(I'm an engineer at Braintree.)

I can't say too much about our timelines, but we're working on it =)

In that case, Roses are red, violets are blue, All my base are belong to you!

Of course you're correct and I don't claim that these are uncrackable. Just a way to practice a bit of clojure while the missus had her girlfriends over.

The headline is "hard to crack" which seems misleading.

Probably should yes!

One of my PMs had this last week. We assumed it was some sort of maintenance mode indicator given the spanner icon. A mystery indeed!

Good summary. Fortunately you have the likes of Balanced to make life slightly easier. Outside the US we're screaming out for a similar service.

They put it in quotes because its their company strap line. It's at the footer of every one of their pages: "giving a @&$#!! since 19xx (some year I don't recall)

You're right! I didn't notice this and it puts it all in context now. I thought you and others were joking but I saw it a few times so I finally checked.

I wish I could still edit my original post to put this in.

Thank you for shedding light.

Looks like it could be good but the author needs to check his/her markup on a mobile. Looks terrible on my iPhone.

Is this targeted to the US, UK or general housing market?