The genius and folly of MongoDB

Re:The genius and folly of MongoDB by edvinbesic on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:23PM (#6583094)

This is a pretty silly argument. The people whom it affects are not people buying cars, it's more like launching a shuttle mission, at which point I would assume you have read the f*ing manual.

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Re:The genius and folly of MongoDB by CoffeeDregs on Sunday October 20, 2013 @11:57PM (#6583239)

Grandparent seems to make a valid argument.

    it's more like launching a shuttle mission

Given how much we spend time talking about MVPs, Lean Startup, etc, I think people on this site are trying to avoid launch a shuttle mission. [Often] They're looking at building startups and are looking for both time-tested and new-but-advantage-providing technologies and techniques. At first glance, MongoDB appears to be advantage-providing so people adopted it quickly. They didn't read the manual; they put it in production on a small site and got surprised by the lack of durability.

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Re:The genius and folly of MongoDB by edvinbesic on Monday October 21, 2013 @12:27AM (#6583330)

I agree, but if you reach that point isn't that one of those good problems to have?

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Re:The genius and folly of MongoDB by codeflo on Monday October 21, 2013 @01:35AM (#6583556)

Losing your data is never "I good problem to have". Even for a small startup, such a thing can easily kill all the momentum you've built up.

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Re:The genius and folly of MongoDB by nasalgoat on Monday October 21, 2013 @01:43PM (#6587041)

I assure you, having to spend 75% of your administration time dealing with MongoDB problems, taking you away from other critical tasks, you'll see it's not really a great problem to have.

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