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Coinbase was founded in 2012 in peak mongodb hype, and while the issues with MongoDB are well understood today, six years ago you'd have to be a cutting edge em
by dustingetz 8y ago
Coinbase was founded in 2012 in peak mongodb hype, and while the issues with MongoDB are well understood today, six years ago you'd have to be a cutting edge emerging database type developer to know that, and that's not the type of person who Y Combinator likes to fund.
- wmf 8y agoI don't know; it sure seems like people understood the issues in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636198
- madeuptempacct 8y agoI still don't understand them past "no PK/FK integrity" and duplicating data + problems with complicated queries.