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I found it a little funny that NoSQL started becoming popular during at least some of the same years that static typing starting becoming popular (again).
by orblivion 8y ago
I found it a little funny that NoSQL started becoming popular during at least some of the same years that static typing starting becoming popular (again).
- acdha 8y agoI've noticed that, too. There's an interesting ping-pong effect where a fair number people have flipped from strong typing at the database layer & dynamic typing at the view layer to the reverse — it seems like someone could write an interesting group psychology paper about how that cycle has repeated over the years.
- dep_b 8y agoI don't think I'm a Luddite but I always had the feeling I just had to sit out the noSQL / JS everywhere storm.
- acjohnson55 8y agoI don't see it that way -- I feel like NoSQL's rise was more or less coincident with the adoption of Rails, Django, and Node over Java. The surge in interest in new static languages has mirrored the resurgence of Postgres, right around version 9.4 (and JSONB).
- orblivion 8y agoCould be. I haven't thought too deeply about what happened when.
- bonesss 8y agoI think they're both responses to the same challenges: distributed web enabled applications. On the server front that means ever increasing complexity with decoupled microservices and latency issues that play nicely with the classic approaches to those domains (static typing, functional programming). On the data front sites like HN, Reddit, or Facebook need scability more than consistency, and have oodles of 'uninteresting' data that jives nicely with a schemaless document store.