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What I don't get is why they wouldn't just use MongoDB. MongoDB is web-scale.


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That was a major impetus for this video, IIRC. The "MongoDB is web-scale" video went around Google about a month before Broccoli Man and some enterprising Googler figured they could use the same software to make a satire of Google's internal tools.


MongoDB is web-scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

NSFWish; it gets a bit personal around 3:11


I miss 2010.

Ah, 2010 - when web scale and its secret sauce – sharding was all the rage.

I had a similar conversation with a heavily-intoxicated MongoDB sales guy in a diner at 1AM after the second day of KubeCon 2019. My concerns were more around data consistency and schema and his pitch was essentially "Who cares?! I'm getting [three-letter agency] to move _everything_ to Mongo because it's so cheap and easy! It's all just JSON! Why does it need a schema?!"

He probably made more than I did that year so maybe he has a point ¯\_(?)_/¯


Maybe because mongodb had been out less than a year in 2010?

I think you missed the /s from GP.

quite likily.

But is it planet-scale?

That's out of date, we're now in the days of IPFS.

/dev/null is also web-scale

Is /dev/null fast? I will use /dev/null if it is fast.

does it support sharding?


And available as a SaaS: https://devnull-as-a-service.com/

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