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Pretty sure they achieved fiscal nirvana by exploiting enterprise brain rot. You hook em, they accumulate tech debt for years, all their devs leave, now they ca
by isoprophlex 2y ago
Pretty sure they achieved fiscal nirvana by exploiting enterprise brain rot. You hook em, they accumulate tech debt for years, all their devs leave, now they can't move away & you can start increasing prices. Eventually the empty husk will topple over but that's still years away.
- dimgl 2y agoIs it possible that they simply have a good product?
- isoprophlex 2y agoImpossible! It's not based on sqlite, postgres or written in rust, so it must be terrible!
- flessner 2y agoI never understood this argument, there are many great products running on Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript... All of these languages have a "crowd" that hates them for historic and/or esoteric reasons. Great products are in my opinion a function of skill and care. The only benefit a "popular" tool or language gets you is a greater developer pool for hiring.
- vosper 2y agoThey do have a good product, but "they accumulate tech debt for years, all their devs leave, now they can't move away" is the story of the place I worked at a few years ago. The database was such a disorganized, inconsistent mess that no-one had the stomach (or budget) to try and get off it.
- codr7 2y agoBasically every MongoDB I've come across; same story, different faces.
- dkjaudyeqooe 2y agoThis is maybe the biggest reason to have a RDBMS, enforcing discipline to keep your data clean. Ultimately this trumps almost everything else.
- FridgeSeal 2y agoThese days almost all the alternatives do 90% of what they cover in a way that’s either using your pre-existing tech stack, or just net-better. There’s probably some extremely specific niche use-cases where it works well, but I suspect they’re pretty few-and-far-between.
- xyst 2y agoThen they get acquired by BloodMoor and they squeeze every last cent out of the remaining customers.
- axpy906 2y agoUnironically, this.