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Mongo as a business has largely catapulted itself to where it is by making money off of information assymetry more than actual technical superiority. They may h
by mrbrowning 9y ago
Mongo as a business has largely catapulted itself to where it is by making money off of information assymetry more than actual technical superiority. They may have since corrected a lot of the fundamental technical isssues with their product, but that doesn’t change the fact that (contrary to SV dogma) their success doesn’t rest on the creation of wealth, only its extraction from magpie-type customers. Downvoters likely chafe at the notion that such a strategy is laudable or valid.
- rtpg 9y agoEven assuming that the product is so-so, saying that they did not create wealth is a bit disingenuous. They basically created "NoSQL" discussions at a time where most settled on some SQL variant despite their difficulties. It's not like they were just a vendor of some other product. They actually spent money on the product, on evangelism (kind of marketing, but also kind of development), on so much. Stripe's technical achievements at first were basically "a nice button" and a slightly friendlier risk model. Yet they are lauded (as they should be!). We can cut Mongo some slack given how we act about other companies.
- philwelch 9y agoI would say that NoSQL was more popularized by Amazon’s whitepaper on Dynamo, which they published in 2007.
- alexasmyths 9y ago"their success doesn’t rest on the creation of wealth, only its extraction from magpie-type customers" To make such an assertion, you're going to have to provide evidence that the people using Mongo and it's services, are, in fact too stupid to know what's good for them, and that they are absolutely better off using something else.