Hello, computer.

Welcome. This is the first post on the thanks, computer. blog.

The project is an open-core event-routing engine. The short pitch is on the home page: rules live in SQL, not code, and one event can fan out through multiple stages. The longer story — design decisions, the txcl language, how the resonator engine works, what we cut from the 2021 original and why — will get written down here, one post at a time.

What you can expect

• Design notes. Why the pipeline looks the way it does. Trade-offs we made and the ones we still haven’t.
• Walk-throughs. Small end-to-end examples that exercise a slice of the system — an HTTP inlet, a rule, a dispatched call.
• Operational notes. What it’s like to run txco in anger: the rough edges, the migrations, the production stories.

That’s it for now. The repository lives at github.com/loremlabs/thanks-computer.