MongoDB came into the community like a ton of bricks, taking over conferences, flooding the zone with mugs and t shirts, and for a time there, you couldn't view the front page of hacker news without at least two MongoDB posts. The death of SQL, now known to be an inferior relic of the past, was a regular topic of discussion. There's a reason why the "Web Scale" meme is so famous, because that's what actually happened for awhile there. SQL was an inferior, leaky abstraction, and ACID was not "web scale". it became all about the CAP theorem (which I hardly ever see anyone writing about these days).
only a year or two later, when teams that went all in on MongoDB at the behest of MongoDB's marketing department started realizing they'd been sold a bill of goods, did the slow and arduous march back to what continued to be the best generalized solution for 95% of data problems, the ACID compliant relational database, begin to occur. given that, this blog post seems really behind the times.
only a year or two later, when teams that went all in on MongoDB at the behest of MongoDB's marketing department started realizing they'd been sold a bill of goods, did the slow and arduous march back to what continued to be the best generalized solution for 95% of data problems, the ACID compliant relational database, begin to occur. given that, this blog post seems really behind the times.