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I like everything he had to say in that article and share his beliefs. It's easy to lose yourself in the myriad of fancy new technologies and stuff where you g
by benologist 16y ago
I like everything he had to say in that article and share his beliefs. It's easy to lose yourself in the myriad of fancy new technologies and stuff where you go to extraordinary measures to hack together a solution.
Simple is good - it's mature, it's easy to understand, it's easy to optimize, and it works. And you don't need to spend a bunch of time and make a bunch of mistakes learning it.
Scale: 120+ million people a month.
Stack: IIS + SQL Server + MongoDB, glued together almost exclusively with C#. The only part of my stack that's remotely cool is MongoDB, and I only use it on a little bit of my platform and I outsource it to MongoHQ.
- gfodor 16y agoIf you're using MongoDB when you already have SQL Server I'd wager this author would argue you are being "seduced" by shiny technology.
- benologist 16y agoYou're right - MongoDB did seduce me with big, bold promises and I even had it set up across some of my servers. Took me a whole lot of effort to get that far, then BAM, it all fell over and there I was like an idiot trying to get it back up when I could have been working on my startup instead. The hard part of any new technology is bouncing back when things go wrong, and I don't have to do that now that a 3rd party does it for me, which brings me back around to Simple again. There's a whole bunch of stuff I would like to learn but the reality is I can't have my startup falling over every time I fumble through learning something new, especially when what I already know can still solve problems.