Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
by techslave on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:14PM
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Agreed, and I was downvoted to oblivion a couple weeks back for saying as much.
> Stop being a crybaby when someone makes a few forms and buttons that spins up a vm with your DB software running
Sure, but that's not what Amazon did. They implemented the API. It's not MDB behind it. (A few HN comments from awhile ago seem to think it's some flavor of PGSQL.)
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
by alittletooraph on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:16PM
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The article mentions that MongoDB already has its own hosted database service, Atlas.
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
by tfolbrecht on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:10PM
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It does, I've used it, I even have the socks, but it's a managed Database product. It's not equivalent to Firebase, AWS Lightsail, Digital Ocean One-click, etc. So a new MERN developer isn't going to gravitate toward that.
It's more like AWS RDS for MongoDB.
Mongo the org should play MongoDB like Google does Kubernetes, Golang, Chromium, etc. Have your people in there, funded, steering the project as 'FOSS' while you release actual products.
Mongo dropped the ball by having no on-ramp product like GCPs Firebase. Their Cloud provider hate is just a flailing reaction to bad business and existential fear.
Stop being a crybaby when someone makes a few forms and buttons that spins up a vm with your DB software running. Of course cloud providers would want a tight integration with their systems.
Managed Kubernetes on AWS makes k8 stronger, managed Firecracker on GCP and Azure makes Firecracker stronger.