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MongoDB is choosing a dinosaurs business model, and it's going to hurt them and their ecology. Mongo the org should play MongoDB like Google does Kubernetes, G
by tfolbrecht 8y ago
MongoDB is choosing a dinosaurs business model, and it's going to hurt them and their ecology.
Mongo the org should play MongoDB like Google does Kubernetes, Golang, Chromium, etc. Have your people in there, funded, steering the project as 'FOSS' while you release actual products.
Mongo dropped the ball by having no on-ramp product like GCPs Firebase. Their Cloud provider hate is just a flailing reaction to bad business and existential fear.
Stop being a crybaby when someone makes a few forms and buttons that spins up a vm with your DB software running. Of course cloud providers would want a tight integration with their systems.
Managed Kubernetes on AWS makes k8 stronger, managed Firecracker on GCP and Azure makes Firecracker stronger.
- alittletooraph 8y agoThe article mentions that MongoDB already has its own hosted database service, Atlas.
- tfolbrecht 8y agoIt does, I've used it, I even have the socks, but it's a managed Database product. It's not equivalent to Firebase, AWS Lightsail, Digital Ocean One-click, etc. So a new MERN developer isn't going to gravitate toward that. It's more like AWS RDS for MongoDB.
- fwiw1 8y agohttps://www.mongodb.com/cloud/stitch https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/stitch
- techslave 8y agoAgreed, and I was downvoted to oblivion a couple weeks back for saying as much. > Stop being a crybaby when someone makes a few forms and buttons that spins up a vm with your DB software running Sure, but that's not what Amazon did. They implemented the API. It's not MDB behind it. (A few HN comments from awhile ago seem to think it's some flavor of PGSQL.)