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It seems contradictory, since startups thrive on making radical departures from the status quo, but I think there's a strong case to be made to build your found
by michaelchisari 16y ago
It seems contradictory, since startups thrive on making radical departures from the status quo, but I think there's a strong case to be made to build your foundation (the stuff nobody sees, but plugs along silently in the background) on tried and true technologies, as opposed to the hot new thing.
Of course, in 5-10 years, some NoSQL solutions will be the tried and true tech, and we'll be arguing whether DoublePluSQL is really worth all the hype it's been getting.
- neilk 16y ago> startups thrive on making radical departures from the status quo Meanwhile, Pinboard.in quietly sucks up the Delicious community, using technology that's as dishwater-dull as possible. Delicious itself is floundering, due to (among many other things) a problematic migration to a framework that was internally marketed as the sexy new thing. That framework wasn't NoSQL at all (quite the opposite) but the point stands that the cost of new frameworks can be dear.
- zeemonkee 16y agoDo you have any reference for this ? Delicious' problems as far as I've read anywhere are due to Yahoo's cutbacks, plus having to integrate with Yahoo services, making it hard to break off and sell to another company. However I've not heard about any specific technical issues with Delicious itself.
- neilk 16y agoI worked one floor away and have friends who worked on Delicious. Generally they haven't talked about this, so I don't think I should. Plus I'm getting a bit tired of all the TC "scoops" that come out of all of this bitching in public.
- FluidDjango 16y agoOkay. You got me. I had to google 'DoublePluSQL'... Funny thing is: first search result was the wikipedia entry for "newspeak" :) A "Whew!" of relief.