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Shorting a banking company because they chose to use MongoDB... you can tell that an engineer wrote this comment. You're missing the forest for one particular t
by whack 6y ago
Shorting a banking company because they chose to use MongoDB... you can tell that an engineer wrote this comment. You're missing the forest for one particular tree.
- isatty 6y agoEh it sounds snarky but not a bad idea because the downtime seems inevitable when using MongoDB. I'm not informed enough to know if it'll affect the share price for a bank but if a tech company did onboard mongo that'd be a major red flag for me.
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- reitanqild 6y agoYep, also we always remember the markets can stay irrational longer than we can stay solvent or something to that effect.
- mushi 6y agoWhy expected down time for dB that has built in replication? I would expect downtime from RDBMSS and most banks have scheduled downtime nearly every weekend they say when I log in.
- bdcravens 6y agoI agree, though decisions made is isolation can give some peeks into company culture. After all, forests often have many of the same kinds of trees.
- DonHopkins 6y agoAnd some forests have a few carefully arranged trees of a different type. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_swastika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_swastika
- joaomacp 6y agoI thought the parent was talking about shorting MongoDB ("MDB" NASDAQ ticker)