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I think it's kind of pointless to fight for an exact meaning for these buzzwords. "Big Data", "Webscale", "Web 2.0", "NoSQL" and whatever other trendy hashtag d

by simias 6y ago

I think it's kind of pointless to fight for an exact meaning for these buzzwords. "Big Data", "Webscale", "Web 2.0", "NoSQL" and whatever other trendy hashtag du jour have lost most of their meaning because they hardly had any to begin with. They're marking drivel, not technical terms. And since everybody wants to look cool we all find ways to say that we're doing it, one way or the other.

klodolph 6y ago
Other than “webscale” I think the other terms still mean something. They don’t need to have a precise, agreed upon meaning to be useful words. “Webscale” is just a buzzword, though.
- Quarrelsome 6y ago
  Sorry I can't resist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
  - srswtf123 6y ago
    This video is one of the best critiques of modern software development, and I suppose IT in general, that I've ever seen. Even if I've seen it a hundred times, I always appreciate seeing it again. Thank you!
  - numpad0 6y ago
    I have suspicion that a lot of people who jumped to NoSQL just didn’t like the aesthetics of SQL syntax, in the same sense as people would not be ecstatic about Visual Basic.
stadium 6y ago
NoSQL was jargon speak for document store. It's really schema on read vs the traditional database where schema is defined on (or before) write. And there are plenty of ways to use sql on various data formats including json, presto being one. Around the time of peak NoSQL buzz, I went to Oracle Open world in the early-mid 2010's and there was an army of MongoDB folks outside the convention center grounds holding signs and handing out swag. NoSQL was definitely a good marketing play to try and take customers away from Oracle.
- treeman79 6y ago
  Mongo can do some amazing things. Things that it absolutely should not be. Company; Document store? Let’s store billions of PDFs in it! My soul dies each day I deal with that system.

by simias 6y ago

klodolph 6y ago

Other than “webscale” I think the other terms still mean something. They don’t need to have a precise, agreed upon meaning to be useful words. “Webscale” is just a buzzword, though.

Quarrelsome 6y ago
Sorry I can't resist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
- srswtf123 6y ago
  This video is one of the best critiques of modern software development, and I suppose IT in general, that I've ever seen. Even if I've seen it a hundred times, I always appreciate seeing it again. Thank you!
- numpad0 6y ago
  I have suspicion that a lot of people who jumped to NoSQL just didn’t like the aesthetics of SQL syntax, in the same sense as people would not be ecstatic about Visual Basic.

stadium 6y ago

NoSQL was jargon speak for document store. It's really schema on read vs the traditional database where schema is defined on (or before) write. And there are plenty of ways to use sql on various data formats including json, presto being one. Around the time of peak NoSQL buzz, I went to Oracle Open world in the early-mid 2010's and there was an army of MongoDB folks outside the convention center grounds holding signs and handing out swag. NoSQL was definitely a good marketing play to try and take customers away from Oracle.

treeman79 6y ago
Mongo can do some amazing things. Things that it absolutely should not be. Company; Document store? Let’s store billions of PDFs in it! My soul dies each day I deal with that system.