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It is true that there were a huge number of subtle issues with exactly what you're describing above (involving changefeed semantics). Many of the RethinkDB bug
by williamstein 10y ago
It is true that there were a huge number of subtle issues with exactly what you're describing above (involving changefeed semantics). Many of the RethinkDB bugs I reported (all of which the team fixed!) were related to these edge cases, which I hit when pushing things hard in production. RethinkDB is amazing in a way that is not interesting to an academic researcher, but matters very much for production use. I really, really hope a couple of key people realize this so that RethinkDB can have a second life as an open source project without a company home.
- phamilton 10y agoUnder a successful support driven model, engineering costs associated with fixing bugs and quirks in the product are amortized across all clients. Fixing a bug for one user fixes it for another, as well as future users. However, if the paid user base is not sufficient to cover support costs, VC money is effectively subsidizing support. In the spirit of analyzing your business model, how much of your success has come about because you had access to a subsidized team fixing bugs for you?