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been watching foundationdb for ages and it's kinda crazy it's still holding up while new stuff keeps dropping. always makes me wonder what it takes to keep so
by gitroom 1y ago
been watching foundationdb for ages and it's kinda crazy it's still holding up while new stuff keeps dropping. always makes me wonder what it takes to keep something useful for so long
- jwr 1y agoThe best technologies aren't always the most fashionable technologies — FoundationDB is very good, but it isn't flashy or fancy and the concepts that it addresses are hard to understand, so it isn't that popular. It also doesn't help that FoundationDB is really a toolkit (foundation), rather than a complete "here's my objects, store them" database.
- lll-o-lll 1y agoWith the “Record Layer” you get that “here’s my objects, store them”. Unfortunately, that layer is Java, so it’s not out of the box if that’s not your language. It’d be nice if they could provide an gRPC api for the Record Layer.
- parkerhiggins 1y agohere's some insight into the team's thought processes around the development and testing of FoundationDB. A few went on to form Antithesis: https://antithesis.com/company/backstory/ https://antithesis.com/company/backstory/
- nasretdinov 1y agoIt really says something when the Aphyr guy doesn't even want to test FoundationDB because their testing suite is vastly superior and comprehensive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39358448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39358448