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Hire, Hire and Hire. I suspect their infrastructure costs are very high too. One challenge that companies find as they try to scale is they have to add a lot
by mathattack 12y ago
Hire, Hire and Hire. I suspect their infrastructure costs are very high too.
One challenge that companies find as they try to scale is they have to add a lot of Sales and Marketing costs well before they receive any revenue, so there's a cost bump despite low growth in engineering. This is compounded if there's a professional services component.
- rational-future 12y agoWhat do you mean by infrastructure costs?
- jacquesm 12y agoI'm assuming just their test farm dwarfs most regular deployments.
- ranman 12y agoThey have a huge test matrix. Sharding tests, performance tests, and large data tests probably take a long time. You can see their test matrix here: https://mci.10gen.com/ https://mci.10gen.com/ and the driver tests here: https://jenkins.mongodb.com/ https://jenkins.mongodb.com/ Also they run https://mms.mongodb.com/ https://mms.mongodb.com/ which does backup and monitoring
- MichaelGG 12y agoEven $1M buys a lot of test equipment.
- kalimoxto 12y agoThey have MongoMMS which has 2 datacenters and provides backup and monitoring services for Mongo clients
- c-rack 12y agoThey should instead fire some of their technical decision makers and use the $100M as compensation for pain and suffering for early adopters. Choosing MongoDB for a project was one of the biggest failures in my career.