Announcing Clojure API for Rama: build end-to-end scalable backends in 100x less code

[Nathan Marz]

I'm happy to announce we've released a Clojure API for Rama in the latest release. We've published an introductory blog post that culminates in building a scalable auction application with timed listings, bids, and notifications in only 100 lines of code.

Rama is a new programming platform that enables end-to-end scalable backends to be built in their entirety in 100x less code than otherwise. It's a "programmable datastore on steroids" where you mold your datastore to fit your application rather than the other way around.

When we announced Rama in August, we demonstrated its power by building and operating a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the 1M lines of code Twitter wrote to do the equivalent at scale. The instance had 100M bots posting 3,500 times per second at 403 average fanout, as well as a highly unbalanced social graph with some users having over 22M followers.

We've also published reference documentation and API docs for the Clojure API. Happy to answer questions here, on the rama-user Google group, or on the #rama channel on Clojurians.