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Congrats on the launch. I saw payload here on HN a few months ago. Good seeing it again. On the "Enterprise" sso approach, are your first party offerings just

Congrats on the launch. I saw payload here on HN a few months ago. Good seeing it again. On the "Enterprise" sso approach, are your first party offerings just plugins? I've worked with various node cms recently, and for our needs we often see the only way to extend is by dangerously forking the upstream rather than hooking in through the plugin architecture. The second aspect I wondered about, is why Mongo? It doesn't seem as "open" compared to a postgres, although maybe works better for your hosting platform offering. I wonder if an adapter to pg/json might be possible. Thanks, and good luck with launch!

sneek_ 4y ago
Thank you! Yes, all of our first-party offerings are plugins and 100% of their functionality can be accomplished with Payload core itself. No need to fork or extend. Our plugin infrastructure runs incredibly deep and it's super straightforward. Mongo was extremely deliberate. The nature of "content", especially pages and posts, lends itself extremely well to the document-based structure of NoSQL. Add in complex field types like arrays, a block-based layout builder, groups, and more, and this becomes even more apparent. But this all being said, supporting Postgres is on our radar and will be happening at some point. Our internal infrastructure is already quite organized and swapping out a different database adapter won't be a monumental task. It'll require some work, for sure, but it's doable. Thank you for the great questions!